This book offers a fresh and insightful exploration of the Fourth Gospel, aimed at scholars and students of the Bible who are interested in its stylistic features. Moving beyond traditional literary analysis, the author examines the pragmatic and performative functions of these stylistic elements, uncovering how they shape the reader’s experience and response. Of particular interest to those working in the field of pragmatics, this book demonstrates that the literary devices found in the Gospel of John are far from accidental. Rather, they represent intentional communicative strategies employed by the evangelist to enhance the Gospel’s theological and persuasive impact. In dialogue with this book, readers are invited to see the Gospel not merely as a sacred text, but as a carefully crafted act of communication, designed to achieve its divine purpose with clarity and force.
After the Postsecular and the Postmodern
A vanguard of scholars asks what comes after the postsecular and postmodern in Continental philosophy of religion. This volume argues philosophy must liberate itself from theological norms and mutate into a new speculative practice to confront the challenges of our time.
