CHRI 1323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liberal Christianity, Historical Criticism, Marcan Priority
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The gospels : the gospels as a group. Christianity owes its origin to the person and work of jesus, its founder and head. Except for a few fragmentary statements by secular historians, the four gospels are the primary source for knowledge about jesus. It is customary to think of the gospels as biographies of the life of christ, but they are not truly biographies of his life. The purpose of the gospels is to proclaim the good news (eujaggevlion) that. God"s forgiveness of sin may be achieved by faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of jesus, the christ. It is called heilsgeschicte or holy history : the gospels fall into two distinct groups: (1) the synoptics matt. , mark, luke (2) John (3) the synoptics are so-called because of the striking similarities and can often be harmonized in parallel columns.
