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One of the most challenging questions facing New Testament scholars - how did Christianity emerge from Judaism? - is often addressed in general and indirect terms. The question becomes acute, however, when we turn to the Fourth Gospel, which, like the Judaism from which it presumably sprang, affirms one God, yet also affirms the incarnation of the eternal Word and, in nascent form, what Christians will later call the Trinity - - teachings that seem to set the Gospel poles apart from Judaism! John Ashton refuses any merely evolutionary explanation for this shift. Rather, he argues that the author of the Fourth Gospel set out precisely to supplant one revelation with another, and this because of the profound religious experience of the Evangelist, who turned from being a practicing Jew to experiencing a new revelation centered on Christ as the intermediary between God and humanity.
John Ashton is a former lecturer in New Testament studies at Oxford University. He has written extensively on the Gospel of John, including Understanding the Fourth Gospel (1991; 2nd ed. 2007) and Studying John: Approaches to the Fourth Gospel (1998).
"Understanding the Fourth Gospel set the standard for a generation of English Johannine scholarship, and John Ashton's collection of essays have continued to stimulate international discussion. This latest work, The Gospel of John and Christian Origins, contains the ripe fruit of long reflection and will be read with eager anticipation by all who have benefitted from Ashton's wide theological culture and astute critical judgment." Robert Morgan Oxford University "John Ashton is a significant and accomplished interpreter of the Gospel of John whose achievements have already been incorporated into two successive editions of his noteworthy volume entitled Understanding the Fourth Gospel. Fortress Press performs an important service by keeping his work available and accessible in this shorter form that will be useful not only to the general reader but appreciated by other New Testament scholars." D. Moody Smith The Divinity School, Duke University "In this elegantly written and persuasive monograph, John Ashton builds on his previous ground-breaking studies of the Fourth Gospel to revisit many of the contested areas of Johannine scholarship. By emphasizing the fourth evangelist's religious experience of the glorified Christ, Ashton sheds penetrating light on the origins of this most luminous of gospels. No serious scholar of John's Gospel should ignore this important book." Ian Boxall The Catholic University of America
