著者

松田 央 Hiroshi MATSUDA

雑誌

論集

巻号頁・発行日

vol.54, no.2, pp.35-48, 2008-01

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The author of the fourth Gospel is named John and understands Jesus Christ as the Logos. The Logos means the Word of God. John's Christology is called Christology of the Logos. Jesus is not so much a prophet who communicates to people the Word of God as the Word of God itself. Jesus, the Logos exists with God (Father) from the eternal beginning, and has the divine nature. Christian God is God of the Trinity who has three persons (personae), the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus, the Son and Logos was sent from the Father to the world, and born as a human being (John 1: 14, 18). This event is named the incarnation of the Logos. The glory of God approached more nearly to us through Jesus who was the incarnated Logos, and could move with Jesus' flesh. The existence of God became more familiar to people in the New Testament than in the Old Testament. We can be formed as the form of Christ and have the divine nature through Christ's person.