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JOHN PAINTER, R. ALAN CULPEPPER, and FERNANDO F. SEGOVIA (eds.), Word, Theology, and Community in John: Festschrift for Robert Kysar (St. Louis: Chalice, 2002). Pp. xii + 244. Paper $32.99.
John Painter, in "Word, Theology, and Community in John: Robert Kysar's Contribution" (pp. 1-17), introduces this collection of essays in Kysar's honor by recounting the academic, pastoral, and homiletic contributions of the honoree in relation to the book's title and as a focus for the contributors. The authors employ various methods to address the Gospel and its readers. The essays are geared for English-speaking readers who have a first-level understanding of the Gospel.
Johannes Beutler, S.J., in "Faith and Confession" (pp. 19-31), reexamines the purpose of the Gospel (20:31) through a study of representative characters whose varying ability to confess faith in Jesus publicly threatens their "social position or even their lives" (p. 29).
Some contributors delineate how social location influences the community's theology. D. Moody Smith, in "Ethics and the Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel" (pp. 109-22), indicates how "getting it right about Jesus" is integrally connected to being a disciple through obedience to Jesus'...