The Prologue of the Fourth Gospel: A Sequential Reading (Library of New Testament Studies 294)

John deliberately does not name his hero at the beginning, as the other Gospels do, but deliberately introduces the ambiguous concept of Logos and its complexity: "He gradually defines this concept more closely, creating a matrix of characteristics associated with divinity, creation, life, light, witness, belief, empowerment to become children of God, enfleshment and the replacement of the law with faithful covenant love" (p. 216).