Belief in the Word: Reading John 1–4

by Francis J. Moloney

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 1993

Overview

Although studies have appeared on current narrative and reading approaches to John’s Gospel, no commentary is available that integrates their findings for students and scholars. Professor Moloney has met this need with a pioneering commentary that focuses on the text itself and its impact on the reader.

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Contents

Top Highlights

“The positioning of the prologue at the very beginning of the narrative is part of the real author’s strategy. The reader comes to the prose narrative section of the Gospel (1:19–20:31) armed with the information provided in the poetic narrative of the prologue. Only the omniscient implied author and the narrator have knowledge of the contents of the prologue. No one else in the narrative knows the secrets the author has told the reader in the prologue.” (Pages 23–24)

“While it is legitimate to translate ‘and the Word was turned toward God,’ there may also be an intention on the part of the author to hint that there was a corresponding turning of God toward the Word.” (Page 28)

“imperfect form of the verb ‘to be’ places the Word outside time, without any controlled ‘beginning’ of his own.” (Page 28)

“The present study will attempt to ‘read’ the Johannine Gospel as a unified narrative” (Page 2)

“The prologue cannot be regarded as a ‘fixed choreography of timeless events,’ yet the epic qualities of the poetic narrative establish an ordered system of relationships between God, his Word, his creation, and its history. The prose narrative of 1:19–20:31 threatens to unsettle that order. Things will not happen as the reader of the prologue might expect. This is so because the prose narrative is a story of God’s self-revelation within the context of ‘the wayward paths of human freedom.’” (Page 24)

Product Details

• Title: Belief in the Word: Reading the Fourth Gospel, John 1–4
• Author: Francis J. Moloney
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 1993
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 248
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. John 1-4 › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780800625849, 0800625846
• Resource ID: LLS:BELIEFINWORD
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-16T15:02:44Z

About Francis J. Moloney

Francis J. Moloney earned his STL from the Salesian Pontifical University in 1970 and his LSS from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in 1972. He earned a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1976. He was professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological College in Melbourne’s College of Divinity in Australia from 1976 to 1994. Moloney was the first theologian to be recognized as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities—an honor conferred in 1992—and was awarded the Order of Australia in 1994.

Moloney became professor of New Testament at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, DC, in 1999, and was elected president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America in 2001. By 2003, he was dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at CUA. He was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the International Theological Commission to the Holy See and served on it for 18 years. Moloney has written 36 books and numerous articles, including a popular commentary on the Catholic Epistles, From James to Jude and A Body Broken for a Broken People. Eucharist in the New Testament.