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The metaphor of light embedded in the Johannine prologue, Part 1: The Light before the incarnation

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dc.contributor.author Van der Merwe, D.G.
dc.contributor.author Albalaa, P.Y.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-12-04T07:24:45Z
dc.date.available 2019-12-04T07:24:45Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.identifier.citation Van der Merwe, D.G. & Albalaa, P.Y., 2013, ‘The metaphor of light embedded in the Johannine prologue, Part 1: The Light before the incarnation’, In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 47(1), Art. #108, 10 pages en
dc.identifier.issn 2305-0853
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ids.v47i1.108
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26109
dc.description.abstract This is the first of two articles on how the Fourth Evangelist has ingeniously embedded the light metaphor in the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel. The Prologue is replete with this metaphor. A thorough discourse analysis explores the text’s inner texture to determine the rhetoric and network of semantic relations, regarding light as the subject. From here the text’s sacred texture is investigated. Various theological themes are interwoven into the text, with light being a consistent, embedded metaphor, embracing a wealth of facets and interpretations. This research focuses on the embedded light metaphor in the Johannine Prologue as it relates to the Logos’s ontological identity and functionality before his incarnation. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher AOSIS en
dc.subject Prologue of the Gospel of John en
dc.subject Light as metaphor en
dc.subject Ontological identity en
dc.subject Ontological functionality en
dc.subject Prior the incarnation en
dc.title The metaphor of light embedded in the Johannine prologue, Part 1: The Light before the incarnation en
dc.type Article en
dc.description.department Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology en


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