1–3 John

Worship by Loving God and One Another to Live Eternally

John Paul Heil

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781498201605
  9781498222679
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498201612
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

This book treats the three letters of John as a unified epistolary package. It proposes two new contributions to the study of 1-3 John. First, it presents new comprehensive chiastic structures for each of the three letters of John based on concrete linguistic evidence in the text. These chiastic structures serve as the guide for an audience-oriented exegesis of these letters. Secondly, it treats these letters from the point of view of their worship context and themes. Not only were 1-3 John intended to be performed orally as part of liturgical worship, but together these three letters exhort their audience to a distinctive ethical worship. In accord with the subtitle of this book, the three letters of John are concerned with giving their audience an experience of living eternally by the worship that consists of loving God and one another

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: 3 John
• Chapter 3: 2 John
• Chapter 4: 1 John 1:1–10
• Chapter 5: 1 John 2:1–14
• Chapter 6: 1 John 2:15–17
• Chapter 7: 1 John 2:18–27
• Chapter 8: 1 John 2:28—3:6
• Chapter 9: 1 John 3:7–12
• Chapter 10: 1 John 3:13–17
• Chapter 11: 1 John 3:18–24
• Chapter 12: 1 John 4:1–6
• Chapter 13: 1 John 4:7–12
• Chapter 14: 1 John 4:13—5:2
• Chapter 15: 1 John 5:3–12
• Chapter 16: 1 John 5:13–21
• Chapter 17: Summary and Conclusion
• Bibliography