@article{De Catalina_2022, title={Timeless Existence and Principle of Creation: Notions Embedded in John 1:1, “In the Beginning Was the Word”}, volume={10}, url={https://rmrj.usjr.edu.ph/rmrj/index.php/RMRJ/article/view/986}, DOI={10.32871/rmrj2210.01.01}, abstractNote={<div align="justify"> <p><em>St. John’s Gospel begins with a prologue, serving as an overture to the whole Gospel. This paper investigates the philosophical notions embedded in the first three lines of John 1:1. The inquiry focuses on whether or not the accepted meaning of this line as “indicating timeless existence” can be deduced from John 1:1 and whether or not John 1:1 also indicates the meaning of the “principle of creation.” This paper proceeds to make this inquiry in the following order: Introduction; The questions arising in John 1:1; Word as God is eternal, outside time; “In the beginning” as predicate; “The Word was in the beginning”; Timeless existence and the verb was; The Word as God is a principle of creation (which included the distinction between the concepts of anthropological intentionality and metaphysical intentionality); and Conclusion. This paper concludes by affirming the two questions on timeless existence and the principle of creation.</em></p> </div>}, number={1}, journal={Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal}, author={De Catalina, Emiliano C.}, year={2022}, month={May}, pages={1–10} }