EKKLĒSIO-ACADEMICS IN THE JOHANNINE COMMUNITY AS A PARADIGM IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT

Abstract

This article develops a new way forward in interpreting the Fourth Gospel by taking into consideration the feelings and aspirations of all levels of people in the Johannine situation. A reader of John can perceive how the narrator facilitates academic thinking and ordinary feelings and aspirations in her or his master plan. With that view in mind, the article elaborates the introductory statements followed by describing the riddling language of the Fourth Gospel, understand the progressive category of people within the Johannine narrative framework, ordinary people within the Johannine context, people’s level of knowledge in John’s community, practice of ekklēsio-academics in John’s community, and doing ekklēsio-academics in India. The article ends with a concluding section.