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... • The Canonical gospels are by four of Jesus’ apostles • Mark, Luke, Matthew, and John • There were many gospels and accounts of written in the early years of Christianity, but eventually only these four were agreed upon for in inclusion in the Bible ...
... • The Canonical gospels are by four of Jesus’ apostles • Mark, Luke, Matthew, and John • There were many gospels and accounts of written in the early years of Christianity, but eventually only these four were agreed upon for in inclusion in the Bible ...
Table 1.3 Christian Writings Composed by the First Third of the
... eventually accepted as the Christian New Testament, an anthology that has its own complex origins, growing out of an oral into written form, as well as its own complex process whereby writings became identified as Scripture over against writings considered the product of heresy, meaning outside the ...
... eventually accepted as the Christian New Testament, an anthology that has its own complex origins, growing out of an oral into written form, as well as its own complex process whereby writings became identified as Scripture over against writings considered the product of heresy, meaning outside the ...
Gospel
A gospel is an account describing the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. The most widely known examples are the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John which are included in the New Testament, but the term is also used to refer to apocryphal gospels, non-canonical gospels, Jewish-Christian gospels, and gnostic gospels.Christianity places a high value on the four canonical gospels, which it considers to be a revelation from God and central to its belief system. Christianity traditionally teaches that the four canonical gospels are an accurate and authoritative representation of the life of Jesus, but more liberal churches and many scholars believe that not everything contained in the gospels is historically reliable. For example, professor of religion Linda Woodhead notes some scholarship reinforces the claim that ""the gospels' birth and resurrection narratives can be explained as attempts to fit Jesus’s life into the logic of Jewish expectation"". However, New Testament scholar N. T. Wright holds firmly to the historical authenticity of the death and resurrection of Jesus, stating that of the whole Bible, this is the story with the most overwhelming historical evidence.