(1) So what we call Johannine Christianity is what we're going to talk about today.

(2) 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.

(3) Apparently some people in the Johannine community were claiming that Jesus was fully divine but not fleshly.

(4) 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.

(5) 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.

(6) We talked about that with the Book of Acts last time, but this time what we're going to do is we're going to use Johannine Christianity, just one of the fancy scholarly words.

(7) Modern doubts about the reliability of that tradition have led many scholars to reject the Johannine authorship of the book, but no other view accounts as satisfactorily for the facts.