Table of Contents

Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The theology of the Johannine Epistles; 3. The Epistles within the Johannine tradition and the New Testament; 4. The significance of the Johannine Epistles in the Church; Select bibliography; Index of references; Index of names; Index of subjects.

Promotional Information

This book allows the Epistles to speak for themselves, and shows that they sound a distinctive note within Johannine theology, in particular, and the thought of the New Testament, in general.

Reviews

"They are very useful volumes produced in the best tradition of British scholarship: lucidly written and argued without any claims the text cannot bear...the collected volumes belong on every reference shelf." Lawrence S. Cunningham, Commonweal