Listy Janowe jako świadectwo wspólnoty przeżywającej kryzys
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2012
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Wyższe Seminarium Misyjne Księży Sercanów
Abstract
Since antiquity, the three Johannine Letters have been read as the refl ection
of a crisis that had shaken the Christian communities connected with
the author(s) of these epistles. Following this historical interpretation, and despite
some recent endeavors to the contrary, 1 John is seen by the overwhelming
majority of commentators as a polemic against false doctrine of certain
secessionist elements (cf. 2:19); the author’s polemical arguments deal with
several controversial points, both christological and ethical. From the study of
extra-biblical sources describing early Christian heterodox movements, there
has emerged no general agreement as to the identity of the author’s opponents;
therefore, scholarly reconstructions of the historical context – the
actual views held by these secessionists, derived solely from the texts of 1 and
2 John, have produced a number of diff erent pictures, individually coherent
yet ultimately divergent. In order to deal with the doctrinal crisis, the author
of 1 John provides a set of criteria for discerning between true and false doctrine.
Most importantly, however, he harks back to the principle of eyewitness
testimony and upholds the key concept of the beginning as a normative
rule in his community’s understanding of their tradition.
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listy Janowe, herezja, ortodoksja, gnoza, tradycja
Citation
Sympozjum, 2012, R. 16, nr 1(22), s. 37-58.