Jesus Risen in Our Midst: Essays on the Resurrection of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel

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Jesus Risen in Our Midst mines the Resurrection Narrative of John's gospel as a rich resource for understanding and developing Christian spirituality. In this series of essays, which can be read independently of one another, Scripture scholar Sandra Schneiders draws out especially fascinating insights on the place of the Resurrection in the overall structure of the Gospel of Johnthe important structure of John 20, which presents a series of episodes that are internally related to each other and constitute a distinctive synthesis of Christian spiritualitywhat the Resurrection story reveals about the New Covenant promised by Jeremiah and Ezekielthe anthropology and eschatology that is operative in John's account of the Resurrectionthe distinction in John between the Glorification and the Resurrection of Jesus Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Abbreviations xxiii Part One The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Chapter 1 The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus and Christian Spirituality 3 Chapter 2 Touching the Risen Jesus: Mary Magdalene and Thomas the Twin in John 20 34 Chapter 3 The Resurrection of the Body in the Fourth Gospel: Key to Johannine Spirituality 61 Part Two John’s Theology and Spirituality of Presence Chapter 4 The Raising of the New Temple: John 20:19-23 and Johannine Ecclesiology 99 Chapter 5 “Whose Sins You Shall Forgive . . .”: The Holy Spirit and the Forgiveness of Sin(s) in the Fourth Gospel 119 vi Jesus Risen in Our Midst Chapter 6 The Lamb of God and the Forgiveness of Sin(s) in the Fourth Gospel 149 Appendix 183 Works Cited 187 Index of Scripture References 198 Index of Authors 204