RT Review
T1 Johannæisk filosofi?
JF Dansk teologisk tidsskrift
VO 80
IS 1
SP 51
OP 69
A1 Nielsen, Jesper Tang 1971-
LA Danish
PB Anis
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1564873285
AB Resumé The article presents and discusses Troels Engberg-Pedersen’s new book on the Fourth Gospel. Engberg-Pedersen argues that the gospel is a philosophical narrative in the way that it in its narrative about Jesus poses and answers philosophical questions about theology, epistomology, cosmology and ethics. One major argument in the book is that John adheres to a Stoic understanding of pneuma. The Stoic pneuma has both an ontological and a cognitive side. In the Fourth Gospel it is exclusively given to Jesus in his baptism and is present in his words. In his resurrection he is transformed into pure pneuma and returns to his disciples in order to convey the pneuma to them. This is what gives them eternal life. The article raises exegetical questions to this interpretation. It argues that the traditions behind the Johannine pneuma are more complex and the narrative is more complicated than Engberg-Pedersen allows for.
K1 Troels Engberg-Pedersen
K1 Philosophy
K1 Stoicism
K1 Pneuma
K1 The Fourth Gospel
K1 Rezension