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Martina Kumlehn undertakes the first study of the chequered history of the reception accorded to St John s Gospel in 20th century conceptions of religious education; in five individual studies she describes an arc from liberal religious education to symbol didactics. The sixth study proposes its own approach to bible didactics which engages with Paul Ricoeur s narrative theory to take up the particular narratology of St John s Gospel and reflect on it didactically. Placed within the area of conflict between phenomenology and semiotics, St John s Gospel is presented as a school of perception and a catalyst for pluralist readings."