Behind the triumphant proclamation of Jesus as God in the Fourth Gospel stands a history of alienation, intense conflict, and crisis.
Jerome Neyrey unearths that history by showing how the Gospel’s Christology functions as a cipher for the Johannine community’s estrangement — and eventual revolt — from its roots in the synagogue.
In Part One, Neyrey offers a fresh, full exegesis of the controversies over Jesus’s eschatological and divine powers, which underlay the Gospel’s confession of Jesus as equal to God. Part Two deftly employs social-science modeling for a rigorous and enlightening reconstruction of the worldview of John’s community as it evolved through stages of controversy that propelled Christians into an exaltation of Christ and a radical devaluation of this world — an ideology of revolt.
A paradigm of interdisciplinary biblical research, An Ideology of Revolt discloses the irony and scandal of John’s community and of John’s Christ.
About the author
Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ, was educated at St. Louis University (BA, MA); Regis College, Toronto (MDiv and MTh); and Yale University (Ph D). He is currently Professor of New Testament at the University of Notre Dame.
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