A tide of books about the Gospel of John are now hitting the shelves, marking a trend that is perhaps worthy of a biblical text that opens with the phrase, “In the beginning was the Word.”Lots of promising-sounding John books have been coming out. I noted Mark Goodacre's last year here. And I hadn't heard that George van Kooten, in his 2025 book Reverberations of Good News: The Gospels in Context, Then and Now (Eerdmans), argues that John's Gospel may be the earliest of the Four. That should be rile things up.These recent and forthcoming books consider new and different theological, historical, and cultural perspectives on the book that is often called “the fourth gospel”—distinct in tone and authorship from the books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
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