The New Gospel

The Greek author of this gospel [John], as we have it, has effectively buried the Jesus of history and substituted his own theological notion of the Son of God, a posturing polemical figure with a streak of anti-Semitism, wholly incompatible with the Messiah of the apostolic [Synoptic] tradition.  It is not to its credit of the Church that it has taken this presentation of a pathological egoist to its bosom as the veritable Jesus.