{"id":44658,"date":"2024-05-16T22:38:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=44658"},"modified":"2024-05-16T22:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T03:38:36","slug":"podcast-380-dr-dustin-smith-on-wisdom-christology-in-the-gospel-of-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-380-dr-dustin-smith-on-wisdom-christology-in-the-gospel-of-john\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 380 &#8211; Dr. Dustin Smith on Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3344\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-44658-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities380.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities380.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities380.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities380.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=44658-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities380.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities380.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lady-Wisdom-in-Proverbs-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44660\" style=\"width:368px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lady-Wisdom-in-Proverbs-8.png 1024w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lady-Wisdom-in-Proverbs-8-450x450.png 450w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lady-Wisdom-in-Proverbs-8-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lady-Wisdom-in-Proverbs-8-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To understand a book as its author intended, you don&#8217;t look to its future, but rather to its past. <strong>What has this author read<\/strong>, and what could he presuppose his audience to have read? These other pieces of literature are like tools in the author&#8217;s hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biblical book of Proverbs famously features <strong>a vivid personification, Lady Wisdom<\/strong>. She pleads with people to seek and find her, and she even appears alongside God when he is creating. As Dr. Dustin Smith explains, this character appears in a number of later ancient Jewish writings in various ways, and can even be described as &#8220;<strong>incarnate<\/strong>&#8221; in certain people. Many of these would have been accessible both to the author of John and his audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul famously writes that <strong>Christ is &#8220;the wisdom of God&#8221;<\/strong> (1 Corinthians 1:24). But as James Dunn has observed, this idea of Christ as God&#8217;s wisdom is more prominent in John than in any other New Testament book. Drawing on an impressive array of recent scholarship, in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wisdom-Christology-Gospel-Dustin-Smith\/dp\/B0D248VGC5\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John<\/a><\/em> Dr. Dustin Smith argues that &#8220;<strong>the Johannine Jesus is incarnate Wisdom <\/strong>and that this christological presentation permeates <strong>all twenty-one chapters<\/strong> of the Fourth Gospel&#8221; (p. 213). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this new discussion we focus on the basics of &#8220;wisdom christology&#8221; and on how that idea sheds light on the famous opening to the fourth gospel, John 1:1-18. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wisdom-Christology-Gospel-Dustin-Smith\/dp\/B0D248VGC5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dustin-Smith-Wisdom-Christology-book-cover-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44659\" style=\"width:337px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dustin-Smith-Wisdom-Christology-book-cover-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dustin-Smith-Wisdom-Christology-book-cover-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dustin-Smith-Wisdom-Christology-book-cover-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dustin-Smith-Wisdom-Christology-book-cover.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Smith, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wisdom-Christology-Gospel-Dustin-Smith\/dp\/B0D248VGC5\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith, <em><a aria-label=\"The Son of God: Three Views of the Identity of Jesus (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Son-God-Three-Views-Identity\/dp\/1498224261\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">The Son of God: Three Views of the Identity of Jesus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KrMHF57oGlQ?si=1sW0qUuElTyfupYI\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Transfigured: Dr. Dustin Smith - Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong>Transfigured: Dr. Dustin Smith &#8211; Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"previous trinities podcast episodes with Dustin Smith (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=dustin+smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">previous trinities podcast episodes with Dustin Smith<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitarianchristianalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Unitarian Christian Alliance (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong>Unitarian Christian Alliance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"podcast 301 \u2013 Dr. Daniel Boyarin on John 1 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-301-dr-daniel-boyarin-on-john-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong>podcast 301 \u2013 Dr. Daniel Boyarin on John 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-295-james-martineau-on-john-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"podcast 295 \u2013 James Martineau on John 1 (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">podcast 295 \u2013 James Martineau on John 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"John A. T. Robinson on \u201cthe Word\u201d of John 1 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/john-a-t-robinson-on-the-word-of-john-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">John A. T. 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