The Courageous Gospel is intended for use alongside a commentary (Ashton, Brown, Bultmann, Barrett, other) in a class introducing the Fourth Gospel. The book has four parts:
-A succinct summary of key matters of introduction;
-A collection of sermons on the Gospel’s core chapters, with reflective reminiscence and remembrance of what Raymond Brown said in lecture about the Gospel thirty years ago;
-A series of background lectures that attempt, on the one hand, to honor the key insights of the current opinion communis (that Jewish apocalyptic explains John) and, on the other hand, to open the door to further insights from an older perspective needed for a full appreciation of John (that the Hellenistic Gnostic background explains John);
-A set of pedagogical appendices, employable in the classroom, to aid discussion.
Together these components attempt to provide the necessary second book for an introduction to the Fourth Gospel, engaging the commentaries with the hermeneutical, homiletical, exegetical, and pastoral implications of a first-level study of John.
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Robert Allan Hill is the dean of Marsh Chapel, a professor of New Testament and pastoral theology at Boston University, and the author of seventeen books. Since 1981, he has taught at institutions including Mc Gill University, Syracuse University, Lemoyne College, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Northeastern Seminary, United Seminary, and in various church settings. His weekly sermon can be heard live at Marsh Chapel on Sundays at 11 a.m. ET, and around the globe at bu.edu/chapel.