The Epistle of John, although simple almost childlike in style, affirm such profound truths that interpreters throughout history have labored to explain them. Dr. Stephen Smalley has long immersed himself in Johannine studies, and is therefore eminently qualified to enter this scholarly argument. Here he addresses such issues as the extent to which 'gnostic' heresies had crept into the early church, and how these letters defend the doctrine that Jesus was both clothed with flesh and blood and actually the Christ of God.