Sophia Theodoratos
Graduate student, University of Aberdeen
Sessional Lecturer in Biblical Studies, St Andrew's Theological College, Sydney
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4162-9898
• M.Th (St Vladimir's Seminary, New York, 2019)
• M.A. (St Vladimir's Seminary, 2018, Summa Cum Laude)
• MBA (IOMBA) Specialization in International Organizations, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2014, Hons)
• Bachelor of Laws, University of Queensland (IIA Hons)
• Bachelor of Commerce, University of Queensland (Dean’s Commendation List)
Member of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand
Dean's Fellowship, SVOTS 2018-2019
Inaugural St Matthias Merit Essay Scholarship, SVOTS 2018
Sessional Lecturer in Biblical Studies, St Andrew's Theological College, Sydney
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4162-9898
• M.Th (St Vladimir's Seminary, New York, 2019)
• M.A. (St Vladimir's Seminary, 2018, Summa Cum Laude)
• MBA (IOMBA) Specialization in International Organizations, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2014, Hons)
• Bachelor of Laws, University of Queensland (IIA Hons)
• Bachelor of Commerce, University of Queensland (Dean’s Commendation List)
Member of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand
Dean's Fellowship, SVOTS 2018-2019
Inaugural St Matthias Merit Essay Scholarship, SVOTS 2018
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Part One, Sensing Christ, considers how human beings engage their senses to behold Christ in John’s Gospel, in Scripture, and ultimately in mystical union with him. Part Two, Gaining Sight, brings together the various dimensions of sense perception presented in Part One, through an exegesis of the above-mentioned pericope.
It will be argued that the beloved disciple engages our senses to enable us to fully perceive Christ through the flesh, beyond empirical boundaries, and to know that God is always forming us, and seeking to lead us back to eternal life in Paradise. In this way John’s engagement with the senses aligns with the reason he gives for writing his Gospel, which is “so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name” (Jn 20.30-31).
The methodology applied is primarily based on searching the text for what John the Theologian himself reveals about his intentions. John tells the reader that his reasons for writing are, “so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name” (Jn 20.30-31). Three parameters are borne in mind while approaching the pericope this way. First, the knowledge that all scripture has been opened, as shown when the disciples “believed the scripture and the word Jesus had spoken”, after the resurrection (Jn 2.13-25). Second, awareness that “love” (ἀγάπη) is a theme indelibly embedded within Johannine writings. Finally, an attentiveness to the words of the Prologue of John (Jn 1.1-18) as they preface the interpretation of the Gospel.
Parallels are drawn to the Apocalypse, Scripture, and the Johannine Epistles, as the interconnected themes of temple and water imagery, and the commandment to love (Jn 13.34) are explored. It is concluded that temple imagery is transferred to Jesus, in the Samaritan woman pericope, to fulfill the very two reasons, already noted above, for which the Gospel of John was written.
Book Reviews by Sophia Theodoratos
Part One, Sensing Christ, considers how human beings engage their senses to behold Christ in John’s Gospel, in Scripture, and ultimately in mystical union with him. Part Two, Gaining Sight, brings together the various dimensions of sense perception presented in Part One, through an exegesis of the above-mentioned pericope.
It will be argued that the beloved disciple engages our senses to enable us to fully perceive Christ through the flesh, beyond empirical boundaries, and to know that God is always forming us, and seeking to lead us back to eternal life in Paradise. In this way John’s engagement with the senses aligns with the reason he gives for writing his Gospel, which is “so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name” (Jn 20.30-31).
The methodology applied is primarily based on searching the text for what John the Theologian himself reveals about his intentions. John tells the reader that his reasons for writing are, “so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name” (Jn 20.30-31). Three parameters are borne in mind while approaching the pericope this way. First, the knowledge that all scripture has been opened, as shown when the disciples “believed the scripture and the word Jesus had spoken”, after the resurrection (Jn 2.13-25). Second, awareness that “love” (ἀγάπη) is a theme indelibly embedded within Johannine writings. Finally, an attentiveness to the words of the Prologue of John (Jn 1.1-18) as they preface the interpretation of the Gospel.
Parallels are drawn to the Apocalypse, Scripture, and the Johannine Epistles, as the interconnected themes of temple and water imagery, and the commandment to love (Jn 13.34) are explored. It is concluded that temple imagery is transferred to Jesus, in the Samaritan woman pericope, to fulfill the very two reasons, already noted above, for which the Gospel of John was written.