Johannine Literature

Anthonysamy, S.J. "An Eco-theology Foreshadowed in the Gospel of John." Bible Bhashyam 19 (1993): 188-204.

One of several articles in this issue on various theological aspects of ecology.

Augenstein, Jörg. Das Liebesgegot im Johannesevangelium und in den Johannesbriefen Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament, 7:14. Stuttgart: Kohlammer, 1993.

Notes the in the Johannine version of the Love Command (13:34; 15:12) the command to love one’s neighbor (plesion) is missing, and that instead the disciples are commanded to love each other. Nevertheless, this is not to be taken as a limitation of the Love Command, but rather must be seen in the broader context of the disciples’ mission to the whole world.

Bahr, Ann Marie B. "God's Family and Flocks: Remarks on Ownership in the Fourth Gospel." In Covenant for a New Creation: Ethics, Religion, and Public Policy, 91-104. Edited by Carol S. Robb and Carl S. Casebolt. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1991.

Balz, Horst. "Johanneische Theologie und Ethik im Licht der «letzen Stunde»." In Studien zum Text und zur Ethik des Neuen Testaments. Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Heinrich Greeven, 35-56. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Schrage. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1986.

Beirne, Margaret. Women and Men in the Fourth Gospel: A Discipleship of Equals. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, 242. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.

Looks at six examples of gender pairs in which each pair is portrayed in either a parallel or contrasting faith encounter with Jesus.

Beirne is Principal and Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the Centre for Christian Spirituality at Randwick, New South Wales, Australia.

Original version in Das Gesetz im Neuen Testament. Herausgegeben von Karl Kertelge. Questiones Disputatae, 108. Freiburg: Herder, 1986.

Collange, Jean François. "`Faire la vérité': considérations éthiques sur Jean 3, 21." Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses 62 (1982): 415-424.

Collins, Thomas. “Moral Guidance in the Apocalypse.” Emmanuel 95 (1989): 502-509.

.              ,  Apocalypse 22:6-21 as the Focal Point of Moral Teaching in the Apocalypse. Dissertatio ad Doctoratum in Facultate Theologiae Pontificiae Universitatis Gregorianae. Romae, 1986.

Concentrates on Rev 22:6-21 as a summary of the moral theology of the Apocalypse.

STD dissertation done under Ugo Vanni, S.J.

De la Potterie, Ignazio [Ignace], S.J. "I precetti morali e Cristo secondo S. Giovanni." In Fondamenti biblici della teologia morale, 329-344. Atti della XXII Settimana Biblica. Associazione biblica italiana. Brescia: Paideia, 1973.

Ignace De la Potterie was on the faculty of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.

Dorado, G.G. Moral y existencia cristianas en el IV Evangelio y en las Cartas de Juan. Colección Estudios de Etica Teológica. Madrid: Ed. PS, 1989.

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler. The Book of Revelation: Justice and Judgment. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985.

________,  Revelation: Vision of a Just World. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.

Grob, Francis. Faire l'oeuvre de Dieu: Christologie et éthique dans l'évangile de Jean. Etudes d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 68. Paris: Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1986.

Holtz, Traugott. "Die «Werke» in der Johannesapokalypse." In Neues Testament und Ethik. Für Rudolf Schnackenburg, 426-441. Herausgegeben von Helmut Merklein. Freiburg: Herder, 1989.

Karris, Robert J., O.F.M. Jesus and the Marginalized in John's Gospel. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1990.

Kenney, Garrett C. The Relation of Christology to Ethics in the First Epistle of John. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 2001.

Argues that the Epistle is best understand as a corrective to the docetic tendencies, both Christological and ethical, found in the Gospel of John. The Epistle teaches that Christology determines ethics, and that God’s love first manifested in Christ is fulfilled in the ethical transformation of the disciple.

Reviewed by Casimir Bernas in Religious Studies Review 29 (January 2003): 93.

Kenney is a Senior Lecturer at Eastern Washington University.

Lazure, Noël, O.M.I. Les valeurs morales de la théologie johannique. Paris: Gabalda, 1965.

Légasse, Simon. "Agape interumana. Dall'apertura al ripiegamento." Capitolo 1 di E chi è il mio prossimo?, 9-34. Roma: Edizioni Dehoniane, 1991.

French Original: «Et qui est mon prochain?» Etude sur l'agape dans le Nouveau Testament. Lectio Divina, 136. Paris Editions du Cerf, 1989.

Treats the theme of agape in both the Epistles and the Johannine writings.

 Lona, Horacio E. "«Treu bis zum Tod». Aum Ethos des Martyriums in der Offenbarung des Johannes." In Neues Testament und Ethik. Für Rudolf Schnackenburg, 442-461. Herausgegeben von Helmut Merklein. Freiburg: Herder, 1989.

Marshall, I. Howard. "Using the Bible in Ethics." In Essays in Evangelical Social Ethics, 39-55. Edited by David F. Wright. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1973; Wilton CT: Morehouse-Barlow Co., Inc., 1983.

Marshall's essay comes out of the September, 1978 National Evangelical Conference in Hertfordshire, England. He gives a brief overview of the problematic, as well as some traditional approaches to the Bible in ethics. Marshall then concludes with what he terms an "evangelical approach" which is based on a hermeneutical reading of the Bible. To illustrate his approach Marshall employs the Foot-Washing command of John 13:14ff.

Discusses the use of Scripture in Pope John Paul II’s 1993 Encyclical Veritatis Splendor on fundamental moral theology.

Neal, B.S. The Concept of Character in the Apocalypse with Implications for Character Education. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983.

Raja, R. J., S.J. "As It Was in the Beginning: Eco-Spirituality in the Book of Revelation." Vidyajyoti 60 (1991): 681-697.

Ritt, Hubert. "Der christologische Imperativ. Zur Weinstock-Metapher in der testamentarischen Mahnrede Joh 15,1-17." In Neues Testament und Ethik. Für Rudolf Schnackenburg, 136-150. Herausgegeben von Helmut Merklein. Freiburg: Herder, 1989.

Russo, Giovanni, S.D.B. "Libertà nella filiazione." Palestra del Clero 70 (1991): 593-614.

Considerazioni etiche sulla nozione di libertà nel Quattro Vangelo e della teologia della libertà.

Ethical consideration of the concept of freedom in the Fourth Gospel, and in the theology of freedom (liberty).

Russo è professore di Etica sessuale all' Univ. Pont. Salesiana di Messina.

Russo is professor of sexual ethics at the Pontifical Salesian University in Messina, Sicily.

Analyzes and critiques the basic ethical perspectives found in the New Testament, with six chapters devoted to "Jesus," the Synoptics and Acts, Paul, Deutero-Pauline Epistles, Johannine Literature, and the Later Epistles and the Apocalypse. Sanders holds that the ethical perspective of Jesus is inseparably linked to his eschatological expectation of the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God, and that New Testament ethics can offer nothing to a contemporary ethics.

One of several articles under this number's general theme of "La Sexualidad: Aproximacion Biblica."

Smith, D. Moody. “The Love Command: John and Paul?” Part II, Chapter 4 in Theology and Ethics in Paul and His Interpreters: Essays in Honor of Victor Paul Furnish, 207-217. Ed. Eugene H. Lovering, Jr. and Jerry L. Sumney. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

Verhey, Allen. "The Revelation to John: Patient Endurance." In The Great Reversal: Ethics and the New Testament, 147-152. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984.

Verhey is the Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkink Professor of Religion at Hope College.

 Von Wahlde, Urban C. The Johannine Commandments: 1 John and the Struggle for the Johannine Tradition. New York: Paulist Press, 1990.

Von Wahlde is professor of New Testament at Loyola University, Chicago.