# The johannine corpus in the early church #### (2004) - Charles E Hill **Link**:: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=HasUDAAAQBAJ **DOI**:: **Links**:: **Tags**:: #paper **Cite Key**:: [@Hill2004-fe] ### Abstract ``` How were the Johannine books of the New Testament received by second-century Christians and accorded scriptural status? Charles E. Hill offers a fresh and detailed examination of this question. He dismantles the long-held theory that the Fourth Gospel was generally avoided or resisted by orthodox Christians, while being treasured by various dissenting groups, throughout most of the second century. Integrating a wide range of literary and non-literary sources, this book demonstratesthe failure of several old stereotypes about the Johannine literature. It also collects the full evidence for the second-century Church's conception of these writings as a group: the Johannine books cannot be isolated from each other but must be recognized as a corpus. ``` ### Notes