Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of John (SP)

by Francis J. Moloney

Publisher:

Liturgical Press

, 1998

Overview

No other book of the New Testament has attracted as much attention from commentators as the Fourth Gospel. It has stirred minds, hearts, and imaginations from Christianity’s earliest days. In The Gospel of John, Francis Moloney unfolds the identifiable “point of view” of this unique Gospel narrative and offers readers, heirs to its rich and widely varied interpretative traditions, relevance for their lives today.

The Gospel of John’s significance for Christianity has been obvious from the time of Irenaeus. It was also fundamental in the emergence of Christian theology, especially in the trinitarian and christological debates that produced the great ecumenical councils, from Nicaea to Chalcedon.

What sets this commentary on the Fourth Gospel apart from others is Moloney’s particular attention to the narrative design of the Gospel story. He traces the impact the Johannine form of the Jesus story has made on readers and explicates the way in which the author has told the story of Jesus. Through this he demonstrates how the Gospel story articulates a coherent theology, christology, and ecclesiology.

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Key Features

• Unfolds the identifiable “point of view” of John’s Gospel
• Presents a thorough commentary on the Gospel of John
• Explores John’s Gospel in the emergence of Christian theology

Contents

Top Highlights

“What Barrett said of v. 1 can be applied to vv. 1–2: ‘John intends that the whole of his gospel shall be read in the light of this verse. The deeds and words of Jesus are the deeds and words of God; if this be not true the book is blasphemous’ (Barrett, Gospel 156).” (Page 35)

“Jesus as the logos of God but this new character, the mother of Jesus, does not know this. Yet with unconditional trust in the efficacy of his word (ho ti an legę̄) she issues instructions to the servants. She is the first person in the narrative to show, at the level of the action of the story, that the correct response to the presence of Jesus is trust in his word.” (Pages 67–68)

“The true disciple is the one to whom discipleship is given by the Father and who believes in the Son (vv. 64–65). It is not information that makes a disciple, but a Spirit-filled response to the Father made known in the word of Jesus.” (Pages 228–229)

“The traditional site for the writing of the Gospel of John—Ephesus—remains one of the best locations for the blend of traditions that lies behind the Gospel.” (Page 5)

“Jesus’ life is based on his having kept the commandments of God, having done the will of the Father (perfect tense: teterēka), evident in his ongoing abiding in the love of the Father (present tense: menō). The disciples are to repeat, in their relationship with Jesus, what Jesus has always had with the Father: a loving mutuality shown by the unconditional observance of his commandments.” (Page 422)

Product Details

• Title: The Gospel of John
• Author: Francis J. Moloney
• Series: Sacra Pagina Series
• Volume: 4
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Print Publication Date: 1998
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 616
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. John › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:SP4JOHN
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:54:51Z

About Francis J. Moloney

Francis J. Moloney earned his STL from the Salesian Pontifical University in 1970 and his LSS from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in 1972. He earned a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1976. He was professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological College in Melbourne’s College of Divinity in Australia from 1976 to 1994. Moloney was the first theologian to be recognized as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities—an honor conferred in 1992—and was awarded the Order of Australia in 1994.

Moloney became professor of New Testament at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, DC, in 1999, and was elected president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America in 2001. By 2003, he was dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at CUA. He was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the International Theological Commission to the Holy See and served on it for 18 years. Moloney has written 36 books and numerous articles, including a popular commentary on the Catholic Epistles, From James to Jude and A Body Broken for a Broken People. Eucharist in the New Testament.