Creation in the Gospel of John:Tradition, Theology, and Ethics

本项目拟从约翰福音的传统历史基础、文学美学设计、神学和伦理意义等方面探讨《约翰福音》中的创世主题。所以这个主题的相关性已经体现在它是一个关于基督教主要经典著作之一的中心神学主题的项目同时也是对世界文学有影响的见证。更令人惊讶的是，到目前为止，这方面几乎没有研究，只有四篇简短的英文专著，每一篇的文本和方法都很有限。此外，神学中的创造伦理问题也应该与圣经的正典著作对话讨论，鉴于当前生命科学的伦理问题（例如长寿研究）和气候变化辩论，该项目更加重视。这个项目是基于一个假设，即约翰福音正在发展一种原始的神学和创造伦理。《约翰福音》序言的突出开头已经支持了这一点，它明确地暗示了《创世纪》第一章，也被理解为一种阅读指导，大意是在接下来的福音中，创造的动机是要被感知的，这在很多地方都是很明显的（例如，《约翰福音》第9章中的粘土；《约翰福音》第18-19章中的花园动机；《约翰福音》第20、22章中吸入生命的气息，与《创世纪》第2、7章有关）。这是一个关于人的创造的问题，也是关于在广阔的宇宙视野中的生命的问题。福音传道者从濒临灭绝和堕落的创造开始，寻找在死亡面前恢复生命的可能性。通过将耶稣的历史与创造神学的基本问题联系起来，从而获得对生与死或生与死的新见解，同时可以推动当前神学和伦理学的辩论。该项目追求三个子目标：-创造相关古代话语的传统历史发展，特别是在第二圣殿犹太教中（特别是通过专家研讨会）-分析第四福音中选出的pericopes和语义创造网络的映射-描述第四福音中创造的神学和伦理，适用于当前的辩论。

The proposed project investigates the theme of creation in the Gospel of John with regard to its traditional historical basis, its literary aesthetic design and its theological and ethical implications. So the relevance of the theme is already given by the fact that it is a project on a central theological theme of one of the main canonical writings of Christianity and at the same time on an influential testimony of world literature. It is all the more astonishing that this has hardly been researched so far and that there are only four brief English-language monographs, each with a limited text stock and methodology. Furthermore, questions of creation ethics in theology should also be discussed in dialogue with the canonical writings of the Bible, which in view of the current ethical questions of the life sciences (e.g. longevity research) and the climate change debate attaches additional importance to the project. The project is based on the hypothesis that the Gospel of John is developing an original theology and ethics of creation. It finds support already by the prominent beginning of the Prologue of John, which is understood with explicit allusion to Gen 1 also as a reading instruction to the effect that in the following Gospel the motive of creation is to be perceived, which in many places is quite evident (e.g. clay in Jn 9; garden motive in Jn 18-19; breathing in of the breath of life in Jn 20,22 with connection to Gen 2,7 etc.). It is a question both of the creation of man and of life in the wide horizon of the cosmos. The evangelist starts from the endangered and fallen creation and searches for possibilities of restitution of life in the face of death. By linking the history of Jesus with the fundamental questions of creation theology, new insights into life and death or becoming and perishing are thus gained, which at the same time can give impulses for current debates in theology and ethics.The project pursues three subgoals: - Traditional historical development of the relevant ancient discourses of creation, especially in Second Temple Judaism (especially through expert workshops)- Analysis of elected pericopes and mapping of a semantic creation network in the Fourth Gospel- Describing a theology and an ethics of creation in the Fourth Gospel, amenable for current debates.