List of Gospels
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 175 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5083-7192-0
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gospels are a genre of Early Christian literature claiming to recount the life of Jesus, to preserve His teachings, or to reveal aspects of God's nature. The development of the New Testament canon has four canonical Gospels which are accepted as the only authentic and apostolic gospels by the Christians, but many others exist, or used to exist, and are called either Apocryphal or Pseudepigraphal. Some of these have left considerable traces on Christian traditions, including iconography. The word "Gospel" - Old English for "Good News" - is the English term for the Greek word ?????????? which means "blessed proclamation", and from which we get the word evangel and its cognates. While proclamation is central to the four Canonical Gospels, it is notably absent from the other surving apocryphal and pseudepigraphal works bearing the name of gospels. But just as people today have come to think of a Gospel as a Jesus-story, so evidently did the...
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