Greater than Caesar: Christology and empire in the Fourth Gospel

Abstract

The problem of John's Christology and the three-headed dog of Rome -- Reading the whole story : strategies of survival -- Story as subversion : John's little countermemory -- Caiaphas : Caesar's accomplice -- Pontius Pilate : truth, terror, torture -- The cross as a tale of terror : Rome's perspective -- The cross inverted : John's perspective -- The cross as triumph : the perspective of the Johannine Jesus -- The inversion of empire : faith, hope, and power