John steeps his gospel in abundant symbolism, both theological and sacramental. Images like bread, light, sheep, water and world suffuse the text providing rich food for meditation. John presents ...

McDowell, Michael T. 2022. An Insider’s Church for Outsiders: The Johannine “Come and See” Passages and Christian Engagement with the World. Religions, Vol. 13 ...

Some Jewish works written several hundred years before John's gospel portrayed Wisdom as God's heavenly consort. This Wisdom, pictured as a beautiful woman, lived with God and participated in ...

C. H. Dodd's Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel, published in 1963, marked a milestone in New Testament research and has become a standard resource for the study of John. Historically biblical ...

The letters of John form a remarkable collection of writing, usually place towards the end of the New Testament. The imagery ...

Vice President Kamala Harris, who self-identifies as Christian, keeps claiming Americans don’t need to compromise their ...

The Book of Kells belongs to that category of manuscripts found in monastic libraries. Our book is now in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, and expresses, in an unparalleled form, the supreme ...

Biblical truth is itself divisive because it presents an exclusive path to salvation. Christians shouldn’t create additional ...

Luke's gospel begins with dramatic appearances of the angel Gabriel to Zechariah and to Mary. Gabriel foretells two miraculous births: the birth of John the Baptist to Zechariah's post-menopausal ...

By that, he meant particularly that the “character” (his word) of Jesus in the text sometimes seemed ... I ask them to read the Gospel of John. With someone like this, though—who I don ...

Dilexit nos', Pope Francis' fourth Encyclical, retraces the tradition and relevance of thought on "the human and divine love ...