1 John: The Perfect Christian?

Here are the last two lecture sketches: ejohn-lecture-7.ppt  and e-john-lecture-8.ppt . Please email your assignment outlines as soon as possible, and also any problems that you are perhaps encountering. Of particular significance to your assignment is the lecture subtitled: “How holy can a Christian be?” One assignment outline that impressed me went as follows: Title: The [...]

Epistles of John: Overview of 1 Jn 4,5

This week we are looking-at-1-jn-45.ppt in an overview sketch of the two chapters. Thank you for the assignment outlines coming in via email. A book that you might consider in the wider reading for your assignment is Orthodox and Heretical Perfectionism in the Johannine Community (Dissertation series) (Paperback) by John L. Bogart. It’s a short (190 [...]

Epistles of John: How holy can a Christian hope to be?

Here attached are the lecture notes for Tuesday night’s session on 1Jn 2  looking-at-1-john-2.doc  and the powerpoint on “Perfection in 1Jn 3?” ejohn-lecture-4.ppt (“How holy can a Christian hope to be?”). Note: I really hope that you disagree with me and can put me straight! This is to enable your forthcoming discussion on the right and [...]

ASSIGNMENTS/ SCHEDULES AUTUMN 07

A number of queries about the assignments which should be completed by Christmas, so just a quick post to check that we’re all singing from the same hymnsheet(!).

Epistles of John 2

Evening class in the Epistles of John I enclose here a detailed summary of 1 John chapter 1 looking-at-1-john-1.doc and a powerpoint summary of our second lecture (ejohn-lecture-2.ppt). Here’s a post to get you thinking about your assignment on right and wrong ideas about Perfection in 1 John:

Epistles of John

Hi guys, Just posting the first lecture in the-epistles-of-john.ppt series. Please make sure you read right through all the assigned material (1 John, 2 John, 3 John) for next Tuesday’s discussion. Remember that we are assembling evidence for the historical context of the letters. An excellent (though densely argued) book on the subject is Martin Hengel’s [...]