Johannine community

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The Johannine community is a hypothesized early Christian group traditionally linked to the Apostle John, thought to have produced the Gospel of John and related New Testament writings and to have held distinctive theological views about Jesus and the Holy Spirit.


Statements (50)
Predicate Object
instanceOf hypothetical early Christian community
scholarly construct
associatedScholarship C. H. Dodd
J. Louis Martyn
Raymond E. Brown
Rudolf Bultmann
associatedWith Apostle John
Book of Revelation
Gospel of John
Johannine Epistles
debatedIssue geographical location
historical existence
relationship to the Apostle John
evidencedBy distinctive vocabulary and style
internal features of the Gospel of John
internal features of the Johannine Epistles
references to secessionists in 1 John
geographicalContext Asia Minor
Ephesus (hypothesized)
identityMarkers emphasis on being "born from above" or "born of God"
internalDynamics tensions over Christology (as inferred from 1 John)
language Koine Greek
relationshipToJudaism conflict with synagogue authorities (as inferred by some scholars)
religiousTradition Christianity
scholarlyStatus hypothetical construct inferred from texts
scripturalInfluence Christology in Christian tradition
New Testament theology
pneumatology in Christian tradition
textualCorpus First Epistle of John
Gospel of John
Johannine literature
Revelation (disputed)
Second Epistle of John
Third Epistle of John
theologicalFocus Paraclete (Holy Spirit) theology
dualism of light and darkness
high Christology
incarnation of the Logos
love commandment
mutual indwelling of Father and Son
pre-existence of Christ
realized eschatology
witness and testimony
timePeriod early second century CE
late first century CE
viewOfHolySpirit Paraclete
Spirit of truth
viewOfJesus Jesus as Lamb of God
Jesus as Son of God
Jesus as pre-existent Word (Logos)

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Apostle John
associatedWith
Gospel of John
attributedTo

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