New Book from Dr. Riku P. Tuppurainen

Summit Pacific College is pleased to announce the release of a new book by Dr. Riku Tuppurainen, Dean of Graduate Studies!

“A Prologue to Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Its Independency, Issues, and Interpretations” was released on May 25th, and is published Wipf and Stock.

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The Fourth Gospel both blesses and betrays. It blesses readers who engage with its message, but it may betray those who read it nonchalantly. The notion that the Fourth Gospel is easy to understand is an enduring myth. This volume takes readers on a heuristic journey to discover the Fourth Gospel’s unique theological aspects, problematic historical matters, inimitable literary features, and various interpretive approaches using an accessible format and easy-to-read language. The purpose of this publication is to enable readers to appreciate the Fourth Gospel’s wide horizon, so necessary to understand its narratives in their historical and narrative contexts. Like the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel that introduces and gives perspective on how readers should approach the rest of the Gospel, similarly, this volume introduces and gives perspective to studies in the Fourth Gospel. The text is divided into three parts, which examine its independent theology and argumentation, various outstanding issues, and its interpretation respectively.

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The book is available now through Amazon.