Abstract

The fourth gospel is the witness of the Son to the Father who speaks and acts through Him, testimony to a unique relationship between the two (the Father/the Son as an absolute relationship), which the Paraclete will helpto deepen in the hearts of the disciples throughout history (Jn 14, 26; 16, 13). In this article we refer not to the immanent Trinity, but to the Trinity as revealed, as we see it in the Johanine writings, concentrating in particular on Jn 3, which contains the first 'christologico-trinitarian' discourse of the public ministry of Jesus, adding to this doctrine with some examination of into the Johanine letters and the Apocalypse. In accordance with the structure of this chapter, we organise the Trinitarian discourse beginning with the Son, Revealer-Redeemer (vv. 11-15), who proclaims new birth in the Spirit (vv. 3-11), to end with the Father (w. 16-21), from whose love comes the initiative to send his only-begotten Son to the world.

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