‘1-3 John’ treats the three letters of John as a unified epistolary package. Taking a thorough and scholarly approach, John Paul Heil proposes two important contributions to the study of 1-3 John. First, he presents new comprehensive chiastic structures for each of the three letters of John based on concrete linguistic evidence in the text. These chiastic structures serve as the guide to a better understanding of for whom John’s epistles were meant, and why they were written. Secondly, it treats these letters from the point of view of their worship context and themes. Not only were 1-3 John intended to be performed orally as part of liturgical worship, but together these three letters plead with their audience to engage in a distinctive kind of ethical worship. The three letters of John are most concerned with giving their audience the experience of living eternally by the worship that consists of loving God and one another.\nTable of Contents\n"Abbreviations 
1) Introduction\n2) 3 John: The Elder to Gaius\n3) 2 John: The Elder to an Elect Lady\n4) 1 John 1:1–10: He Will Cleanse Us from All Unrighteousness\n5) 1 John 2:1–14: If We Keep His Commandments the Love of God Has Been Perfected\n6) 1 John 2:15–17: Do Not Love the Things in the World\n7) 1 John 2:18–27: The One Confessing the Son Also Has the Father\n8) 1 John 2:28–3:6: You Know Whoever Does Righteousness Has Been Begotten from Him\n9) 1 John 3:7–12: We Should Love One Another\n10) 1 John 3:13–17: We Ought To Lay Down Our Lives for the Brothers\n11) 1 John 3:18–24: Believe in the Name of His Son Jesus Christ and Love One Another\n12) 1 John 4:1–6: In This You Know the Spirit of God\n13) 1 John 4:7–12: God Has Sent His Son so that We Might Live through Him\n14) 1 John 4:13—5:2: Just as That One Is so We Are in This World\n15) 1 John 5:3–12: This Is the Love of God that We Keep His Commandments\n16) 1 John 5:13–21: All Unrighteousness Is Sin\n17) Summary and Conclusion\nBibliography\nScripture Index 
Author Index 
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1-3 John: Worship by Loving God and One Another to Live Eternally

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Heil, John Paul

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The Gospel of John has been examined from many different perspectives, but a comprehensive treatment of the theme of worship in this Gospel has not yet appeared. John Paul Heil offers a contribution toward a remedy of this deficiency by analyzing the entire Gospel of John from the perspective of its various dimensions of worship. The aim is to illustrate that three different but complementary dimensions of worship - confessional, sacramental, and ethical - dominate this Gospel. Indeed, these different types of worship represent the ways one expresses and demonstrates the faith that includes having divine life eternal, which is the stated purpose for writing the signs Jesus did in this Gospel - that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, believing, you may have life in his name ( John 20:31).

The Gospel of John: Worship for Divine Life Eternal

Saint Paul is rightly considered a great missionary, evangelist, teacher, preacher, and pastor; but people often forget his role as a pre-eminent and paradigmatic liturgist. Similarly, our most direct access to Paul is through his letters; but we often forget their original function: rituals to be performed publicly in a liturgical assembly.  The author corrects this deficiency by focussing on worship in the letters of Paul the Apostle, analysing each of the thirteen letters attributed to him. The result is an innovative new approach that gives the reader a greater understanding of the original purpose and meaning to Paul's letters. Using liturgical and ritualistic language Paul worships through the letters themselves, addressing the audience about theological concepts, particular problems and pressing concerns. Understood in the biblical tradition that dynamically combines liturgical and ethical worship, Paul's letters transcend their immediate context and become meaningful for the moral worship of everyday lives outside the liturgical assembly.

The Letters of Paul as Rituals of Worship

Draws the reader into Matthew's narrative of Jesus' death and resurrection and brings Matthew's Jesus out of the text into the reader's world. The rigorous analysis of alternating and interlocking scenes will aid scholars and students who seek to understand Matthew's sophisticated composition.

The Death and Resurrection of Jesus: A Narrative-Critical Reading of Matthew 26-28

Fortress Press

The essential pastoral companion for preaching 
The New Proclamation series helps preachers write better sermons—from Advent through Pentecost. It offers creative links to literature, spirituality, and the sociocultural scene in addition to historical and exegetical reflections on all the biblical texts. 
The format assists those using the Revised Common Lectionary, the Roman Catholic lectionary, and the Episcopal lectionary (BCP): 
1. Reader-friendly workbook design for easy note-taking and lay-flat binding for hands-free usage. 
2. Poetry, literature, and narrative highlight dimensions of the liturgical season and day. 
3. Discusses the present-day cultural context as it relates to the biblical texts.

New Proclamation: Year A, 2002 : Easter Through Pentecost

Dempsey, Carol

Jacobson, Diane

The Gospel of Mark As a Model for Action: A Reader-Response Commentary

Paulist Pr

The Meal Scenes in Luke-Acts: An Audience-Oriented Approach (Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series)

Scholars Pr

This is a helpful narrative-critical study of the Johannine passion and resurrection account. After a brief introduction, Heil shows how scenes in the narrative are arranged in sets, with each scene providing a contrast to the scenes that surround it. These alternating scenes involve the implied reader in an interplay of competing or complementary narrative themes.

Blood and Water: The Death and Resurrection of Jesus in John 18-21 (Catholic Biblical Quarterly: Monograph)

Catholic Biblical Association

Matthew's Parables: Audience Oriented Perspectives (1998) (The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series, 30)

Carter, Warren

J.P. Heil proposes that the letter to the Hebrews was heard by its audience as a cohesive series of 33 microchiastic units coherently arranges in three macrochiastic levels of 11 units each.

Hebrews: Chiastic Structure and Audience Response (Catholic Biblical Quarterly: Monograph)

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