A scholar presents eight lectures surveying recent critical literature and methods concerning the Gospel of John, assessing questions of authorship, historical reliability, and theological development. He outlines the author's standpoint and narrative technique, examines the work's pragmatism and distinctive Logos doctrine, and considers its Christology and early transmission. Engaging both sympathetic and critical views, the lectures challenge simplistic reductions of the Gospel's theology to Pauline origins, argue for a balanced treatment of tradition and criticism, and propose directions for further debate about the relations among Jesus' teaching, Pauline thought, and Johannine theology.