trinities 338 - What John 1 Meant

https://trinities.org/blog/podcast-338-what-john-1-meant/ This lecture was the opening session of the 2021 Unitarian Christian Alliance Conference.

In it, after briefly surveying the historical range of interpretations of John 1:1-18, I show how earlier literature gives us the context in which the original audience would have understood the prologue of the fourth gospel.

The resulting interpretation is compatible with but does not imply Trinity or Incarnation as normally understood, as befits a writing of the late 1st century.

The keys to understanding this text, I show, are themes from previous Jewish “wisdom” literature.

Along the way I explain why trinitarian, subordinationist, oneness/modalist, and Socinian interpretations of this text are problematic.

But my purpose is not to give full refutations of these, but rather to show how overall plausible and well-motivated the correct interpretation is.

A correction: when I listed the four kinds of readings of John 1, I unaccountably left out the Oneness/Modalist sort. But I do discuss it, and why I think it is mistaken.

Links for this episode @ https://trinities.org/blog/podcast-338-what-john-1-meant/

the handout for this talk

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podcast 301 – Dr. Daniel Boyarin on John 1

podcast 298 – Andrews Norton on John 1

podcast 295 – James Martineau on John 1

podcast 294 – Dr. Jo-Ann Brant on the Gospel According to John – Part 2

podcast 293 – Dr. Jo-Ann Brant on the Gospel According to John – Part 1

podcast 292 – New vs. Old “Beginning” – Two Interpretations of John 1

podcast 291 – From one God to two gods to three “Gods” – John 1 and early Christian theologies

podcast 290 – Is the “Socinian” interpretation of John 1 correct? A conversation with Carlos.

podcast 289 – “Socinian” approaches to John 1 – Part 2

podcast 288 – “Socinian” approaches to John 1 – Part 1

podcast 287 – Dr. Andrew Perry on John 1

podcast 116 – George R. Noyes’s Explanation of Isaiah 9:6 and John 1:1

podcast 70 – The one God and his Son according to John

podcast 63 – Thomas Belsham and other scholars on John 8:58

podcast 62 – Dr. Dustin Smith on the preexistence of Jesus in the gospel of John

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John A. T. Robinson on “the Word” of John 1

This week’s thinking music is “Circles (Instrumental)” by Greg Atkinson.

Weekly podcast exploring views about the Trinity, and more generally about God and Jesus in Christian theology and philosophy. Debates, interviews, and historical and contemporary perspectives. Hosted by philosopher of religion / analytic theologian Dr. Dale Tuggy.

This week's thinking music is "Circles (Instrumental)" by Greg Atkinson. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Greg_Atkinson/Instrumentals/Circles_1596

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