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JOHANNINE DUALISM AND CONTEMPORARY PLURALISM
Author(s) -
VOLF MIROSLAV
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2005.00282.x
Subject(s) - dualism , pluralism (philosophy) , mandate , epistemology , politics , argument (complex analysis) , gospel , philosophy , sacrifice , sociology , law , political science , theology , biochemistry , chemistry
The main thrust of this essay is an argument that (1) John's Gospel is not “dualistic” in the technical sense of the term but that it does operate with “oppositional dualities”; (2) far from being negating of pluralism as both a social fact and a political project, John's kind of oppositional dualities may in fact be the best way to preserve social pluralism and make it flourish; (3) two notable features of John's oppositional dualities are that (i) they are soft enough to allow surprisingly blurry boundaries between “inside” and “outside” and that (ii) they mandate a willingness to sacrifice one's own life on behalf of one's deadly enemies.