{"id":1066,"date":"2011-12-12T17:41:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T22:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2011-12-12T23:08:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:08:55","slug":"readings-on-the-gospel-of-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/readings-on-the-gospel-of-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on the Gospel of John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Advent through Easter, St. Lydia&#8217;s will be exploring the Gospel of John. \u00a0If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about the fourth gospel, Emily recommends the following texts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Written-That-You-May-Believe\/dp\/0824519264\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323729154&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Written That You May Believe<\/a>,&#8221; an intriguing and readable introduction to the Gospel with a femenist perspective, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scu.edu\/jst\/academics\/faculty\/schneiders\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra M. Schneiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raymond_E._Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Raymond E. Brown<\/a> reconstructs the history of the Johannine Community in his work, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Community-Beloved-Disciple-Individual-Testament\/dp\/0809121743\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323729489&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Community of the Beloved Disciple<\/a>,&#8221; and offers succinct commentary on the text itself in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gospel-Epistles-John-Concise-Commentary\/dp\/0814612830\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323729514&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Gospel and Epistles of John<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FInally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/fac_home.aspx?contact_id=ckoester\" target=\"_blank\">Craig R. Koester<\/a> provides a introduction to the themes and motifs of John in his book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Symbolism-Fourth-Gospel-Meaning-Community\/dp\/0800635949\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323729543&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Advent through Easter, St. Lydia&#8217;s will be exploring the Gospel of John. \u00a0If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about the fourth gospel, Emily recommends the following texts: &#8220;Written That You May Believe,&#8221; an intriguing and readable introduction to the Gospel with a femenist perspective, by Sandra M. Schneiders. &nbsp; Raymond E. Brown reconstructs the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}