Abstract
This article investigates Henry’s transcendental Interpretation of John critically. The ideas on God and Jesus which John tells are close to the structure of Life in Henry’s phenomenology in that God, Jesus, Truth, Life and Logos are identical and they preexist in God himself together. It is not the case, however, that John changes Henry’s philosophy, but rather that the method of his biblical interpretation can be called “check for the correspondence”. Moreover, his correspondence-method fails on that it cannot cover the death of Jesus John tells as “death in God’ glory”. This failure appears clearly in Henry’s interpretations of John 10:1-18 (parable of the Good Shepherd and His Sheep) as Henry’s interpretation cannot include the phrase “lays down one’s life” (in 11, 15, 17 and 18) which Jesus declares. Jesus which Henry tells doesn’t die, contrary to John’s narrative.
