Servant of God in John

The Author: Dominic Chukwunonso Obielosi is a priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha (Nigeria). He was ordained in 1996. He holds a Licentiate in Sacred Scriptures from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; Diploma in Jewish Religious Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is pursuing his Masters Degree in Education at the St. John’s University (USA).

• Contents: Status quaestionis establishing the factuality of the problem – Detailed examination of the characteristic attributes of the Servant of God as postulated by Isaiah – Servant Songs of Isaiah as a subject of interest in the New Testament – Attributes of the Servant of God as crystallized in chosen Johannine passages to prove that John used the categories of the Servant of God and applied them to other christological titles – A hermeneutic interpretation in the context of African Traditional Religion.