A Perennial Digression

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John's Gospel as Orthodox Gnosticism

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David Armstrong
Nov 09, 2025
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Narratio. It is uncontroversial to remark that John’s is the strangest of the four canonical Gospels because the least like the others. All the primary questions that follow, and where the fireworks are in thinking about John’s Gospel, is how to account for those differences in the Gospel’s authorship and purpose. This year, Hugo Méndez released what I …

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