The Johannine prologue : a hermeneutical key to the community theme

dc.contributor.authorGharbin, Godibert Kelly
dc.contributor.authorVan Eck, Ernest
dc.contributor.emailernest.vaneck@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-06T11:38:36Z
dc.date.available2022-12-06T11:38:36Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-13
dc.description.abstractAs John wrote to a community grappling with incarnating its communalistic values, he furnishes readers with remedies for addressing such sociocultural maladies. However, to appreciate the Johannine response to colossal cultural failure, we must begin from the Johannine prologue because the narrative develops the enigmatic constructs it postulates. Although the community theme is one of such, it has not received attention despite the gamut of academic interests in the prologue and the ubiquitous acknowledgement that it is a compendium of the major themes in Johannine prologue. Therefore, this article aimed to contribute to the ongoing discussions on the major themes in the Johannine prologue and the divine remedy to these challenges – how the believing community can epitomise the eternal community. The study employed a narratological analysis because it analyses and guides the reader to recreate the Johannine theological concept of community, studying the poetics and meaning of what the prologue promulgates. The findings indicated that the Johannine prologue is the hermeneutical key to understand the community theme: it establishes its legitimacy, explicates what it entails and lays the foundation for its narratological development. Thus, no academic autopsy on the community theme should ignore it. INTRADISCIPLINARY AND/OR INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPLICATIONS: The Johannine characterisation of a community challenges the relational dimension of a community – the anthropological view that defines community by the ‘quality relationships’ between group members – by redefining a community as a group of people participating in the divine community. This research thus intersects with the disciplines of anthropology and sociology.en_US
dc.description.departmentNew Testament Studiesen_US
dc.description.librariandm2022en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.ve.org.za/index.php/VEen_US
dc.identifier.citationGharbin, G.K. & Van Eck, E., 2022, ‘The Johannine prologue: A hermeneutical key to the community theme’, Verbum et Ecclesia 43(1), a2621. https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v43i1.2621.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2074-7705 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1609-9982 (print)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/ve.v43i1.2621
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88654
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSISen_US
dc.rights© 2022. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_US
dc.subjectJohnen_US
dc.subjectCommunity themeen_US
dc.subjectSocial-scientificen_US
dc.subjectLogosen_US
dc.subjectJohannine prologueen_US
dc.subjectHermeneutical key
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-16
dc.subject.otherSDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.titleThe Johannine prologue : a hermeneutical key to the community themeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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