ABSTRACT
The aim of this article is to study both the reception of the corpus johannicum and its place among the New Testament texts. The corpus johannicum has its particularities, beginning with the fact that it is not a “cohesive” corpus in which the books appear in a sequence as in, for instance, the Pauline letters. The corpus johannicum has three biblical literary genres, namely: Gospel, Letter/Epistle and Revelation. In the early Church, most of its texts faced resistance regarding their effective attribution to John the Evangelist. This corpus has only five texts: a Gospel, three Letters and an Apocalypse. The Gospel of John was accused of being a pro-gnostic text; the second and third letters took a long time to gain full acceptance in the biblical canon; the book of Revelation was accepted by the Western Church and rejected by the Eastern Church until the end of the 4th century, when it finally became accepted in the canon of the New Testament. The First Letter had easier acceptance from the outset.
KEYWORDS
Johannine corpus; Canon; Gospel; Letters; Apocalypse