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The Beloved Apostle?

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by Michael J Kok

    • Author

      Michael J Kok

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      Cascade Books

    • Published

      November 2017

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      Product Description

      Second-century Christians had a significant role in shaping the import of the literary sources that they inherited from the first century through their editorial revisions and the church traditions that they appended to them. Michael J. Kok critically investigates the supposed clues that encouraged select Christian intellectuals to infer that John, one of Jesus' chosen twelve apostles, was the mysterious ""disciple whom Jesus loved"" and to ascribe the fourth canonical Gospel as well as four other New Testament books back to him. Kok outlines how the image of Saint John of Ephesus was constructed. Not all early Christians approved of the fourth canonical Gospel and some expressed strong reservations about its theology, preferring to link it with a heretical adversary rather than with an authoritative Christian founder figure. Discover how the moves made in the second century were crucial for determining whether this Gospel would be preserved at all for posterity, much less as part of the scriptural collection of the developing Orthodox Church. ""In this compelling volume, Michael Kok enters a conversation fraught with centuries of complications--the identity of John's

      Specification

      • Author

        Michael J Kok

      • Book Format

        Paperback / softback

      • Publisher

        Cascade Books

      • Published

        November 2017

      • Weight

        137g

      • Dimensions

        138 x 214 x 13 mm

      • ISBN

        9781532610219

      • ISBN-10

        1532610211

      • Eden Code

        4547429

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      • Author/Creator: Michael J Kok

      • ISBN: 9781532610219

      • Publisher: Cascade Books

      • Release Date: November 2017

      • Weight: 137g

      • Dimensions: 138 x 214 x 13 mm

      • Eden Code: 4547429


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