Your Father the Devil? Corinthians and nurtures the spiritual life

and nurtures the spiritual life of the reader

The author has increasingly

Professor of New Testament and Academic Dean

and constructive engagement with others about contemporary culture and ideas

It puts to rest forever the notion that the magisterial reformers of the 16th Century introduced a novelty in their declaration that justification is by faith alone

Your Father the Devil? Corinthians and nurtures the spiritual lifeIs John's Gospel antisemitic? In John 8: 44 Jesus tells the Jews, 'You are of your father the Devil', a charge used throughout the centuries by antisemites to fuel hatred of the Jews. And it is no one off statement: throughout the Gospel, 'the Jews' appear as Jesus' sharpest opponents, ultimately seeking his execution. Who then are 'the Jews' in John's Gospel? Defending John against the charge of antisemitism, Motyer argues that, far from demonising