Ratio Religionis: "Retelling the Story of Jesus: The Gospel of John and the Emergence of Philosophical Religion and Religious Philosophy in the Early Imperial Period

拟议的研究项目是更大的企业的一部分，“Ratio Escheronis：早期帝国的宗教哲学和哲学宗教”，它分析了不同宗教传统（犹太教，基督教，“异教徒”）的柏拉图主义链中哲学宗教和宗教哲学的发展。在经历了一个怀疑主义的阶段之后，柏拉图哲学不仅在对柏拉图著作的重新解读中找到了真理的源泉，而且在对宗教故事、仪式和人工制品的新解释中找到了真理的源泉。通过一种将传统宗教材料视为神圣形象的方法来进行哲学解释，这种宗教材料在解决当代问题方面取得了丰硕成果。除了犹太人（如斐洛）和“异教徒”（如普鲁塔克）的作品，早期基督教著作也参与了这一发展。拟议的项目打算在这一发展中推广约翰福音。它的特别重点是约翰唯美主义，也就是说，在所谓的“精神福音”（克莱门特亚历山大）的神学和解释学功能的感官知觉。感官知觉的数字突出在第四福音，最经常在明确的神学背景。拟议研究的中心假设是，它是在耶稣的故事，因为在约翰福音上帝的话谁成为肉身（约翰福音1：14）-在正确的方式来看，否则不可知的上帝（约翰福音1：18）成为可感知的通过感官。

The proposed research project is part of the larger enterprise, "Ratio Religionis: Religious Philosophy and Philosophical Religion in the Early Empire", which analyzes the development towards philosophical religion and religious philosophy in the Platonist strand of different religious traditions (Jewish, Christian, "Pagan"). Following a phase of scepticism, Platonic philosophy found its source of truth not only in a fresh rereading of the writings of Plato, but also in a new interpretation of religious stories, rituals and artefacts. Interpreted philosophically through an approach that regarded traditional religious materials as images of the divine, this religious material became fruitful for addressing contemporary questions. Alongside Jewish (e.g. Philo) and "Pagan" (e.g. Plutarch) works, early Christian writings also participated in this development. The proposed project intends to situate the Gospel of John in this development. Its particular focus is Johannine aestheticism, that is, the theological and hermeneutical function of sense perceptions within the so-called "spiritual gospel" (Clement of Alexandria). Sense-perceptions figure prominently in the Fourth Gospel, most often in explicitly theological contexts. The central assumption of the proposed study is that it is in the story of Jesus as told in the Gospel of John the Word of God who became flesh (John 1:14)-viewed in the right way-that the otherwise unknowable God (John 1:18) becomes perceivable through the senses.