The Literature and History of New Testament Times

who received the teaching of another. He was great, not as one who created a profound theology, but as one who could understand the Lord Jesus Christ. The "Johannine theology" is the th

thor's genius, it commands admiration; but only if it is a t

ction or fact, a splendid product of

ated from the question of authorship. Clearly if the book was written by an intimate friend of Je