The Johannean Problem: A Resumé for English Readers (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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This little book is not an Introduction to the Fourth Gospel. It deals exclusively with the antiquity and authorship of that book, and from an affirmative stand point. Even this it does not profess to treat exhaustively. Such a course was impossible if the author's aim was fol lowed. What that aim was will appear a little later.

The book grew out of the author's investigations made with the Object of satisfying himself what conclusion the evidence for and against the Johannean authorship ofthe last gospel warranted and demanded. AS soon as study of the subject began, the author was almost appalled at the vol ume of literature treating the Johannean Problem. In English, French, and especially German, the treatises ran into scores, while articles almost innumerable, bearing on particular phases of the question, were found in the pages of the various journals and reviews.

The writer read nearly everything of importance that could assist him in reaching a conclusion concerning the evidence. He gave prolonged study to the Gospel itself. And as he read and studied, as he noted the abandon ment of position after position held by adverse critics, the conclusion grew that no hypothesis which excluded the apostle John from the authorship satisfied the condi tions and accorded with the testimony.

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