1 John for LWLC Men.pptx

2018

Johannine ethics is a problematic area for scholarship but recently there has been a breakthrough. In this new era of exploring Johannine ethics, the present study examines the concept of moral transformation through mimesis. The argument is that when people live in God's world, their character and conduct are shaped in accordance with the moral beliefs, values, and norms of the divine reality, and that mimesis proves to be instrumental in this process of moral transformation. The study also explores how Johannine Christians in the late first century could imitate an 'absent' Jesus and what they were seeking to imitate.

The Bible Today, 2018

This short article appears in The Bible Today, 56 (2018): 301-306

A consideration of methodological issues in the quest for a high christology in 1 John. A research paper for BIBL 6843, Northwest University, 08/2014.

Johannine Ethics: The Moral World of the Gospel and Epistles of John, 2017

This essay recounts how John’s Christology became marginalized in the Quest for the Historical Jesus, how the Johannine Community view of R. Brown and J. L. Martyn helped to reclaim its theological significance, and how both its historical and theological message is being championed by more recent contemporary scholarship (e.g. Richard Bauckham).

Presented at the Nijmegen Conference on Ethics in the Johannine Literature (May 2010); published in Rethinking the Ethics of John: “Implicit Ethics” in the Johannine Writings; WUNT 291; Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics, Vol. 3. Edited by Jan van der Watt and Ruben Zimmermann (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012), 290-318. [proofs]