This is the second half of an article;part (i) can be found here. 3. A Spirituality of Conflict and Decision Whilst seeming to be the most ‘reflective’ of the gospels,John is also the one which contains the sharpest conflicts. Jesus is in constant debate with ‘the Jews’—not usually,in fact,the Jewish people [...] It feels like a natural thing to be reflecting on the spirituality of St John’s gospel;after all,it has been referred to as ‘the spiritual gospel’ since the early church. Mark’s driving narrative presents us with Jesus as a man of action,making clear who he is through what he does. Matthew’s organised presentation [...] This is a question I quite often get asked in relation to conversations with Jehovah’s Witnesses and the New World Translation (NWT). The NWT translates the end of John 1.1 as ‘the Word as a god’in order to avoid the identification of Jesus with the God of the Old Testament,and avoid seeing Jesus [...] | ||
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