Early Christian spirituality according to the First Epistle of John: The identification of different ‘lived experiences’
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Authors
Van der Merwe, D.G.
Issue Date
2013
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Article
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en
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Different configurations of spirituality , Experience through physical senses , Experience through spiritual senses , Fellowship with the divine
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The interest in this article is early Christian spirituality. The word ‘spirituality’ is used here denoting ‘a lived experience’. Therefore, the article focuses on religious experience in an early Christian community as explicated in the first chapter of the First Epistle of John. Three different lived experiences are denoted here, culminating in the last one: ‘having fellowship with the divine’. The first two experiences (experience through physical senses, experience through spiritual senses) pave the way to establish fellowship with the divine. For the author of 1 John, the purpose (ἵνα) of these lived experiences is to have (ἵνα) complete joy, another form of experience. These three lived experiences express three different configurations of spirituality.
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Van der Merwe, D.G., 2013 ‘Early Christian spirituality according to the First Epistle of John: The identification of different “lived experiences”’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #1286, 9 pages.
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AOSIS
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2072-8056