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Application of Johannine Themes
to Social Justice Issues
by John Traxler
PURPOSE
My intention is to identify social justice issues contained
in the Gospel of John. While the Fourth Gospel is not as well known
for its social justice content as Luke’s Gospel is, it does contain substantial
evidence of human alienation within its society and culture, as I have
tried to catalog. It is the marginalized, the disenfranchised, that
Jesus reaches out to and invites to join his group of disciples, his community
(at the time of this Gospel's writing, the Johannine community).
From papers drafted weekly in accordance with the THST 698 course outline,
I have aggregated the major material in general categories of social justice
concern (see CONTENTS) for presentation in this document. The source
references identified at the end (BIBLIOGRAPHY) include the HarperCollins
Study Bible (NRSV) and a number of commentaries, all with annotations
as to their content.
CONTENTS: SOCIAL JUSTICE THEMES
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