Some major Johannine themes, I'm going to go through this pretty quickly because, if you just take a concordance and look up these terms, you can look at all the different places. 一些约翰基督教的主题,我会快速地讲一遍,因为如果你拿一份索引,找这些关键词,你会发现有很多处地方。
In fact, what I'm going to be talking about is three or four stages in the development of Johannine Christianity as one branch of early Christian literature. 实际上我将会讲到,约翰基督教的三到四个发展阶段,它是早期基督教文学的一个分支。
There's no in between, there's no gray area, you're either in or you're out, so scholars define this by talking about Johannine sectarianism, the insider-outsider divisions. 没有中间区域,黑白分明,你要么在其中,要么在其外,学者在探讨约翰基督教时定义了这一点,局内和局外的区别。
So what we call Johannine Christianity is what we're going to talk about today. 我们今天要讲的,就是约翰基督教。