Divine fellowship in the Gospel of John: A Trinitarian spirituality

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Divine fellowship in the Gospel of John: A Trinitarian spirituality
 
Creator Van der Merwe, Dirk
 
Subject Theology; New Testament Trinity; Divine-Fellowship; Familia Dei; Identity; Love; Life; Unity; Glorification
Description This article investigates how Trinity features are presented in the Gospel of John and how the early Christians experienced the Trinity in their daily lives. The immanence and ‘lived experiences’ of the divine are fostered by how the immanence of the divine is expounded in terms of the familia Dei: God as Father, the Logos as Son of God, believers as Children of God and the Spirit-Paraclete as the one who constitutes the family and educates the children in the family. Therefore, in this article, the familia Dei will be the facilitating hermeneutical principle used to examine the divine fellowship as well as the ‘lived experiences’ and immanence of the divine in early Christian everyday living. John’s reflection on perichoresis lies embedded in a ‘fellowship’ perspective. The divine fellowship is investigated from the four perspectives of how the divine is identified in John: life in the familia Dei, love in the familia Dei, unity in the familia Dei and glorification in the familia Dei.
 
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Date 2019-10-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Structural analysis
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v75i1.5375
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 75, No 1 (2019); 12 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Ancient World 1st century Na.
Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Dirk Van der Merwe https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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