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Schuyler Brown

Bio: Schuyler Brown is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Christology & Gospel. The author has co-authored 1 publications.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an archetypal reading of the Fourth Gospel is presented, making possible an encounter with the author's imaginal world, without being put off by the offensive rhetoric.
Abstract: Summary Modern readers of the Fourth Gospel can scarcely ignore the Wirkungsgeschichte of this powerful text. Although its intense polemic against “the Jews” can be understood historically as a not unusual example of intra‐Jewish sectarian animosity, its appropriation by Christians has made a sinister contribution to the Holocaust. Furthermore, although the Fourth Gospel affirms of the disciple everything that it affirms of Jesus, it has served as the starting point for conciliar definitions on christology which have opened up a “divinity gap” between the reader and the central figure in the narrative. An archetypal reading of this text makes possible an encounter with the author's imaginal world, without being put off by the offensive rhetoric.