- 208 pages
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About this book
Thomas appears only four times in John's Gospel, yet despite this he is crucially important in understanding the function of the Johannine message. Dennis Sylva provides the first major study which examines the paradox that Thomas is both opposed to a dominant theme in the Fourth Gospel - the eternal life that is a gift to Jesus' followers - and yet is in support of Jesus himself. Thomas appears to have a foot on both sides of the Johannine dualistic divide. He seems to be existentially at home on one side and yet ideologically at home on the other. No other character in John's Gospel so tenaciously hold on to companionship with Jesus while just as resolutely distancing himself from Jesus' central teaching. Thomas breaks down the barriers between the disciples (those who walk in the light) and the world (those who walk in the darkness) that John takes pains to establish. Sylva's new work demonstrates the importance of Thomas in fully understanding the message of the Fourth Gospel.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction The Twinning of Thomas
- Chapter 1 Going to Death with Him (John 11.16)
- Chapter 2 Where Else Can We Go with Him (John 14.5)?
- Chapter 3 There Is (No) More: God from Beyond the Limits of Belief (John 20.24-29; 21.1-2)
- Chapter 4 The Johannine Thomas in the Contexts of the Cultural Topoi of PARRHSI /A and Friendship
- Conclusion The Twinning of the Johannine Community
- Appendix Brief Comments on the Basis of This Study Concerning the Question of the Relation of the Gospel of John to the Gospel of Thomas
- Bibliography
- Index of Protocanonical, Deuterocanonical, Pseudpigraphical, and New Testament References
- Index of Modern Authors