RELIGION 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mark Goodacre, Form Criticism, Early Christianity
22 Sep 2016
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The gospels are not like modern biographies there are often gaps at the very points we would like to know more. We do not hear about jesus" childhood, adolescence, career, family etc. , except indirectly. The term itself is important: english gospel is derived from the old anglo-saxon word god spell, from the greek evangelion = good news . They are propaganda in the early christian cause. John 20. 30-31: now jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that jesus is the. Messiah, the son of god, and that through believing you may have life in his name. The term was already current in early christianity, before the writing of the gospels, e. g. paul often speaks about the gospel as the good news about jesus that is at the center of his preaching (eg. rom.
