August 27, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM in person (Location to be announced)
Online Option to be announced
Join the “Spirituality and Justice Summer Book Club” with the Micah Project Merced.
Meetings are free, and we will have an in-person and online option for each book. All are welcome.
Email micahproject@c4so.org for details.
Share your email with us, and we’ll send out notes, questions, and reflections on the book in advance.
(Contact us quickly if you would like to share input on dates and times. We would love a local business or community space to host).
Challenging the claim that Christ belongs to a particular denomination, nation, or race, Katanacho presents the Gospel of John as introducing a new world order. In John's account of Jesus's life, the rich history of Judaism is reinterpreted in light of the inclusive Christ, the fulfilment of Old Testament prophecies, teachings, and promises. Walking us through the reinterpretation of holy space, holy time, holy history, holy community, holy land, and life itself, Katanacho demonstrates how John's gospel establishes a new identity for the people of God - an identity defined not by race or nationality but by suffering and love. Containing questions for reflection designed with preachers in mind, this accessible book will be a great help for Christians seeking to mine the beautiful riches of spiritual truth in this often-complicated gospel.
Christians from diverse cultural, religious, and political contexts have been studying the Gospel of John for almost two thousand years. In this insightful reflection on the Fourth Gospel, Rev Yohanna Katanacho invites us to encounter the text anew, this time from the perspective of a twenty-first century Palestinian Christian.
Rev. Yohanna Katanacho is professor of Biblical Studies and academic dean at Nazareth Evangelical College in Israel. He is the author of, or contributor to, dozens of books in English and Arabic including "The Land of Christ: A Palestinian Cry" and "Praying through the Psalms". Dr. Katanacho is an Old Testament editor for Arabic Contemporary Commentary as well as Asia Bible Commentary. He is also one of the authors of the Palestinian Kairos Document. His full bibliography is available on www.katanacho.com.
This book is a delightful and moving take on the fourth gospel that manages to touch matters of identity, salvation, justice, and peace with a pen that moves both soberly and irenically. Palestinian Christians are painfully well placed to teach the rest of us how to speak truth in love. Katanacho does so here in an accessible volume that belongs on the shelf of every reader of English who cares about the Gospel of John.
David A. Baer,
Seminario Bíblico de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
Dr Yohanna Katanacho's insightful and accessible commentary on the Gospel of John is a feast of rich theological insight into the apostle's message for his day and our own. A faithful and careful interpreter of the biblical text, Katanacho reads John's story against the backdrop of the apostle's own time and within the setting of the contemporary Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Reading along ancient and contemporary grains, Yohanna Katanacho offers Christians everywhere a fresh vision of the Fourth Gospel's universal message of hope and reconciliation in the one vine, who is Christ Jesus.
Gene L. Green, Wheaton College