2009/10/01 by R. Alan Culpepper
paper · doi:10.1177/002096430906300402
crossref issued 2009/10/01 · crossref published 2009/10/01 · crossref published-online 2009/10/01 · crossref published-print 2009/10/01 · crossref created 2011/10/04 · crossref deposited 2026/04/29 · crossref indexed 2026/07/31
From the earliest centuries, the Gospel of John has been embraced as the church's gospel. The first commentaries on any book of the New Testament were written on the Gospel of John. Nothing matches the beauty and lofty Christology of its poetic prologue, words that more than any others guided the councils of the early church and led to the definitive expression of orthodox Christology.