John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist
Overview
John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist is an accessible introduction to the fourth Gospel. This book examines three aspects of John’s Gospel: John’s telling of the story of Jesus, his interpretation of Jesus for his readers, and his formulation of all of this into the Gospel of Jesus.
Carter surveys the central issues of this Gospel and engages with narrative and historical approaches, the two dominant methods used in interpreting John’s Gospel. He introduces his readers to consider the Gospel’s negotiation of the Roman Imperial world.
This book is written for college and seminary students, clergy seeking resources for teaching and preaching, and laity—especially Bible study groups that like to engage a topic in some depth.
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- Introduces the Gospel of John through multiple perspectives in an accessible writing style
- Focuses on John as a storyteller, interpreter, and evanglist
- Includes detailed indexes and an extensive bibliography for further study
- John: Storyteller
- The Genre of John’s Gospel
- The Plot of John’s Gospel
- Characters: God and Jesus
- Other Characters
- Johnspeak: The Gospel’s Distinctive, Dualistic Language
- Telling the Story: John’s Style
- John: Interpreter
- John: Interpreter of Scriptures and Sources about Jesus
- John: Interpreters for Changing Historical Circumstances
- John: Evangelist
- John the Evangelist: Author and “Author-ity”
- The Good News according to John
- Good News? Reading John Today in Our Multireligious World
The adage that the Gospel of John is a pool in which a child can wade and an elephant can swim is repeated often. While John is widely accessible on a superficial level, it demands a great deal if one is to read it perceptively. Warren Carter provides serious readers with a thorough orientation to the Gospel, leading students of the Gospel into its literary, historical, and theological facets while providing an overview of key figures and contributions in Johannine scholarship. Everyone needs a guide when entering unfamiliar territory, and, for the adventurous, Carter is surefooted, reliable, and insightful. Those who follow his lead will quickly find John to be a source of endless fascination.
—R. Alan Culpepper, dean, James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology
This is an excellent and substantial introduction to the Gospel of John geared for seminaries or college courses but also useful to anyone wanting to gain a deeper knowledge of this gospel. . . . Equipped with a rich bibliography and laid out in an organized fashion, this introduction provides a strong orientation to the gospel and its interpretation.
—The Bible Today
The greatest strength of this book is its emphasis on reading the narrative as an autonomous story and allowing John’s Gospel to speak independently of any other tradition. Evangelical students of the Gospels have a tendency to get mired in the historical minutiae of the text or to harmonize first and thereby miss out on the distinctive theological contributions of the writers. Because of these all too common tendencies, Carter’s volume will prove useful for helping beginning evangelical students read the Fourth Gospel as an independent narrative. This text will prove useful for introductory classes on the Fourth Gospel and is highly recommended.
—Journal of the Evangelical Society
The book will serve college and seminary students well, and clergy wanting to do some solid work with the Gospel.
—Biblical Theology Bulletin
This handbook makes for an excellent primer on its topics and can be warmly recommended.
—Bulletin for Biblical Research
In John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist, author Warren Carter explains that he is writing for college and seminary students, for clergy seeking resources for preaching and teaching, and for laity seeking to engage in the study of the Fourth Gospel in some depth. He is thus not writing this book for his peers, although specialists will undoubtedly learn from it. In addressing a general audience, Carter does not sacrifice his commitment to scholarly excellence and precision. The result is an erudite but accessible introduction to John’s Gospel.
—Toronto Journal of Theology
This book is a first-class introduction to the Fourth Gospel which will prove invaluable to all those approaching serious study of the Gospel for the first time. In an engaging style, Carter comprehensively and clearly examines the significant issues in contemporary Johannine scholarship. . . . Carter has produced a very well-written and remarkably comprehensive introduction to John, which should be well received by student and scholar alike.
—Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist
- Title: John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist
- Author: Warren Carter
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Publication Date: 2006
- Pages: 288