The Community of Eternal Life: The Study of the Meaning of Life for the Johannine CommunityThe Community of Eternal Life is a work which employs a peculiar exegetical methodology of a four-level reading of the text to demonstrate the fact that the vision of eternal life played a key role in holding together the disparate groups that lie behind the Fourth Gospel and the three Johannine epistles. |
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Theme Reviews Method and Scope | 1 |
Community Tension and Theme of Life | 47 |
Presuppositions and Principles | 49 |
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