Fourfold Gospel – A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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This groundbreaking approach to the study of the fourfold gospel offers a challenging alternative to prevailing assumptions about the creation of the gospels and their portraits of Jesus. How and why does it matter that we have these four gospels? Why were they placed alongside one another as four parallel yet diverse retellings of the same story?Francis Watson, widely regarded as one of the foremost New Testament scholars of our time, explains that the four gospels were chosen to give a portrait of Jesus. He explores the significance of the fourfold gospel's plural form for those who constructed it and for later Christian communities, showing that in its plurality it bears definitive witness to what God has done in Jesus Christ. Watson focuses on reading the gospels as a group rather than in isolation and explains that the fourfold gospel is greater than, and other than, the sum of its individual parts. Interweaving historical, exegetical, and theological perspectives, this book is accessibly written for students and pastors but is also of interest to professors and scholars.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-12-19
Mått:147 x 215 x 16 mm
Vikt:276 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Baker Publishing Group
ISBN:9780801098895

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Francis Watson (PhD, University of Oxford) is Research Chair in Biblical Interpretation at Durham University in Durham, England. He previously taught at the University of Aberdeen and at King's College London. Among his numerous works are the critically acclaimed Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith; Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective; and Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective.

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ContentsProlegomena: The Making of a Fourfold GospelMore Than Four?Fewer Than Four?Why "Gospel"?Why the Evangelists' Names?Why These Four?Part 1: Perspectives1. The First Gospel: Jesus the JewThe Messiah's Double OriginGenealogy as NarrativeThe Sacred Story and Its ShadowThe Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah2. The Second Gospel: Preparing the WayThe Four Faces of the GospelThe Voice in the DesertThe Inclusive GospelAn End and a Beginning3. The Third Gospel: MagnificatHow Luke Became LukeReassuring TheophilusReading in Parallel4. The Fourth Gospel: Seeing GodThree plus OneThe Johannine EagleIn the BeginningPart 2: Convergences5. Four Gospels, One BookThe Evangelist: Portrait and ArtistPrefatory to a GospelOrder out of ChaosParallels and Numbers6. The City and the GardenAcclamationReading the EventA Man of Sorrows7. Christus VictorThe Death of the MessiahAtonementPatternLifeAftermath8. The Truth of the GospelThe Eucharistic MilieuEvangelical ApologeticsForm and ContentThe One WordIndexes