Chapter 4. The First Pneumatic Event. The Descent of the Spirit as Jesus’ Divine Generation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents xi
3. Chapter 1. History of Research. Cosmos in the Fourth Gospel 1
4. Chapter 2. Cosmology in Stoicism. The Discourse of Physics 59
5. Chapter 3. Philo’s Divine Generation. The Safer Way to Truth 105
6. Chapter 4. The First Pneumatic Event. The Descent of the Spirit as Jesus’ Divine Generation 159
7. Chapter 5. John’s Call from the Wilderness for a Better Guidance of the Way to the Lord 217
8. Chapter 6. Regeneration as Hermeneutical Competence. The Johannine Signs and the Meta-Story of Pneumatic Transformations 275
9. Chapter 7. The Penultimate Pneumatic Event. “It Is the Spirit That Gives Life” (6:63). Jesus’ Ascent and Translation into the Father 347
10. Chapter 8. The Ultimate Pneumatic event. Worshippers in Spirit and Truth. The Quest for the Father – The Quest of the Father 405
11. Backmatter 459