“Chosen Traumas” and “Chosen Glories” in the Group Identity of the Johannine Community: An Exegetical Study of the Language of εἰρήνη in the Fourth Gospel through a Hermeneutics of Trans-generational Trauma and Social Memory KU Leuven
From the perspective of the gospel of John as an ideological product of its time, Jesus appears as a colluder or conspirator in his own death. In terms of Vamik Volkan’s notion of the trans-generational transmission of aspects of shared identity in ethnic groups, the gospel memorialises the “chosen trauma” (representations of past trauma) of Israel including the destruction of the temple in the “chosen glory” (representations of past victory) ...