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| dc.contributor.author | Van der Merwe, D.G.
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-10T10:48:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-12-10T10:48:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Van der Merwe, D.G., 2006, Ethics in the Johannine Epistles: ‘A matter of having Fellowship’, Pages 535-564 in Identity, Ethics, and Ethos in the New Testament edited by J G van der Watt, Berlin: Walter De Gruyter. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0171-6441 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26192 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The ethos of the ethics of 1 and 2 John is a matter of "fellowship". A network of metaphors are used by the elder to describe this distinctiveness of Johannine ethics in the setting of ancient Mediterranean life. Such family life was adapted to the Lebensraum of the familia Dei. Relational imagery is conjured by the elder in order to encourage his adherents to strive for family unity and fellowship. Ethics in the Johannine epistles culminates existentially when the elder addresses two concrete opposite situations of ethical conduct in 3 John, ending with the emphatic and pregnant statement in verse 11: "Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God". | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Walter de Gruyter | en |
| dc.subject | Fellowship | en |
| dc.subject | Family metaphor | en |
| dc.subject | Family dynamics | en |
| dc.subject | Immanency | en |
| dc.subject | Imitatio Christi | en |
| dc.subject | Knowing, having, being in, abiding in | en |
| dc.title | Ethics in the Johannine Epistles: ‘A matter of having Fellowship.’ | en |
| dc.type | Book chapter | en |
| dc.description.department | Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology | en |
