John Edwards Hardback Wiley–Blackwell 9780631229063

John Through the CenturiesAuthor(s): Mark Edwards\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9780631229063, 978-0631229063\nSynopsis\nThis pioneering commentary embraces the full scope and themes raised in John's Gospel, offering an engaging and perceptive reading. Mark Edwards explores a diverse range of excerpts and creative responses, with particular emphasis on the treatment of the Gospel in English poetry. \n\nExplores the diverse themes and issues raised in Johns Gospel, and considers its influence on figures from Saint Augustine, to Dorothy Sayers and Bob Dylan.\nTreats well-known interpreters such as Thomas Aquinas along with lesser-known figures such as the Gnostic Heracleon, and the sixth-century hymn-writer, Romanos.\nBrings ancient and modern commentators into dialogue with each other, and takes a critical stance towards some parallels drawn by modern scholars between the Gospel and the surrounding pagan cultu]