{"id":394,"date":"2007-11-05T18:16:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2021-01-09T19:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:01:12","slug":"the-hour-of-glorification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/the-hour-of-glorification\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hour of Glorification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How and why does John depict the death of Jesus as &#8220;His hour of Glorification&#8221;?<\/h2>\n<p>The Gospel of John offers a radically mature presentation of Jesus when compared to the dramatic and often emotional tone of the synoptic gospels, who concentrate on Jesus&#8217; humanity rather than his deity. The gospel of John does entirely the opposite &#8211; it concentrates on the deity of Jesus and has a cool objectivity; his condescension to become a human, his total control of the crucifixion process (this is one of the biggest contrasts to the humiliation of synoptic versions) to the degree he sorts out his Mother&#8217;s future care whilst on the cross and his masterful elevation back to His Father&#8217;s side at the end of the narrative. The language of John is enigmatic and multi-layered, this 2000 word essay does a good job at unravelling what is meant by the repeated motif, <em>&#8220;the hour of glorification&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A PDF is available <a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/Documents\/Content\/The-hour-of-glorification.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How and why does John depict the death of Jesus as &#8220;His hour of Glorification&#8221;? The Gospel of John offers a radically mature presentation of Jesus when compared to the dramatic and often emotional tone of the synoptic gospels, who concentrate on Jesus&#8217; humanity rather than his deity. The gospel of John does entirely the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,33],"tags":[183,182,184],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity","category-new-testament","category-theology","tag-deity-of-jesus","tag-gospel-of-john","tag-synoptic-gospels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}