... no real hights: The less emotional Jesus
In John ... Jesus is demonstrably less emotional than in the synoptic gospels, and one suspects that this aspect of his characterization fits with John's insistence that Jesus was the incarnation of the preexistent logos. He is "not of this world" (8:23; 17:14). His emotions tend to run on a rather flat plane from troubled to untroubled, and there are no real hights. If John's emphasis on Jesus' "logo-nature" requires or explains his failure to give a more convincing portrayal of Jesus' "human nature," then Ernst Käsemann's verdict that John shows Jesus as a god "striding upon the earth" is no far from the truth, and later docetic interpretations of the gospel are not entirely ill-founded.
R. Alan Culpepper, Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983), 111-112 (som jeg har lånt av Tor Vegge i over et år nå. Hvem tror jeg egentlig at jeg er? Så utrolig lite følsom! Så inni lefsehullet forflatet!)
R. Alan Culpepper, Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983), 111-112 (som jeg har lånt av Tor Vegge i over et år nå. Hvem tror jeg egentlig at jeg er? Så utrolig lite følsom! Så inni lefsehullet forflatet!)
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