The Johannine Legacies

The Johannine Legacies:

Orthodox and Gnostic

I. The Johannine Epistles:

C. Occasion of the Johannine Epistles:

D. The Differences between the Writer(s) and the Opponents

1. On Christology

a. Key Texts:

b. The Views:

2. On Ethics (1:6–10; 2:4–11; 4:20)

II. Overview of the Development of the Proto-Orthodox and Proto-Gnostic Johannine Communities

	Jesus
	↓
	Johannine Community
	↓
	Gospel of John (ca. 90s C.E.)
________	________↓________	________
↓		↓
Community of 1,2,3 John		The Secessionists
↓		↓
Proto-Orthodox Christianity (Jesus is Divine and Human)		Proto-Gnostic Christianity (Jesus is Divine not Human)

III. Christian Gnosticism

A.

B. Origins and Dating

1. Roots

2. Gnosticism in Christianity:

C. Sources

1.

2.

IV. Gnosticism in Dramatic Mythological and Philosophical Perspectives (see handout)

A. Act One:

B. Act Two:

1. Cosmology:

2. Theology:

[Matrix clip #1: chap. 12, 00:00–05:30]

C. Act Three:

1. Anthropology: The Divine Spark (cf. John 5:37–38, 42; 8:44,47; 10:25–26; 15:16–19; 17:24)

2. Ethics: Asceticism

3. Ecclesiology: "Spirituals," "Naturals," and "Carnals" (cf. John 14:15–17; 1 Cor 2:14– 3:1)

D. Act Four:

1. Soteriology:

2. Christology:

[Matrix clip #2: chap. 17; 00:00–2:20]