John the purifier: His immersion and his death
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | John the purifier: His immersion and his death | |
| Creator | Chilton, Bruce | |
| Description | This article aims at arguing that John the Baptist's role in the Synoptic Gospels is both catechetical and christological. John points the way forward to believers' baptism after the manner of Jesus. John's preaching of repentance in Q is cast within the needs of Christian catechesis and addressed to hearers who are at the margins of Judaism. Likewise, the advice to relative prosperous converts in Luke 3:10-14 is not part of the 'historical John's message. In evaluating John the Baptist one should not consider his allegedly prophetic status but the fact that he immersed people and purified them. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2001-12-14 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v57i1/2.1860 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 57, No 1/2 (2001); 247-267 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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