Savior of the World

This book addresses an important set of Johannine motifs that have largely been overlooked by scholarship in recent decades. Drawing on some of the best of recent Johannine scholarship, Sosa Siliezar sets the record straight. John’s Jesus is the Savior of the World, not merely the hero of a sect.

~Paul Anderson, Professor of Biblical and Quaker Studies, George Fox University

In this original study, Carlos Sosa Siliezar proposes a new reading of the Fourth Gospel. Following its narrative sequence and the point of view reflected in it, he brings to light the universal significance of Jesus and the universalistic perspective of this gospel, thus challenging the sectarian approach that inspires most reading strategies of this text today.

~Santiago Guijarro, Professor of New Testament, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain

Carlos Sosa Siliezar joins a growing number of scholars in arguing against reading the Gospel of John as a sectarian text intended for insiders. A highly readable and helpful study of the character and function of John's universalist language.

~Catrin H. Williams, Reader in New Testament Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Overall, Siliezar offers a compelling reading of the Fourth Gospel by tracing the use of John's universal language throughout the entirety of the evangelist's narrative. Against strict sectarian readings, he successfully demonstrates how a narrative-critical approach to John's Gospel can 'cast new light' on lingering historical questions. He persuasively argues that John's depiction of Jesus as the rightful owner of creation suggests that John's original readers were not an isolated community.

~James A. Roh, Reading Religion

…it is a concise critique against reading the Gospel of John from a sectarian perspective and it will remind the reader that the Johannine Gospel envisions the incarnate Logos extending his authority to all the nations in one grand global Kingdom.

~C. Scott Shidemantle, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society