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The Gospel According to St.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-53400-4
- Pages
- 109 –121
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-53401-1_4
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[The Johannine phrase “to believe in him (Jesus)” (πιστεύω εἰς αὐτὸν) is often taken today as denoting assent to various propositions about Jesus. However, I argue that John crafts this phrase to mean something far more profound. Using the wedding at Cana as a foil, John takes πιστεύω εἰς αὐτὸν as synonymous with pledging one’s allegiance to Jesus by making a personal commitment that amounts to spiritual marriage. The theses in this chapter have the potential to spark future research on the relationship between the Fourth Gospel and its possible reception through the theme of spiritual marriage in the history of Christian mysticism and of the sixteenth-century Reformations.]
Published: Aug 25, 2020