WHAT A (SOMETIMES INANIMATE) DIVINE ANIMAL AND PLANT HAS TO TEACH US ABOUT BEING HUMAN: JOHN'S JESUS AND OTHER NONHUMANS.
The Jesus of John's Gospel is not, or not solely, a human being. The god-man is also a nonhuman animal (a lamb), a vegetable (a vine), vegetable byproducts (bread and a door), and inorganic energy, namely, electromagnetic radiation (light)--all epithets no more or no less metaphoric than 'Son of God...
| Publicado en: | Literature & Theology Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 391 - 405 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2017
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