Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger. -from the Gospel According to Luke...
...familiar words of Luke's Christmas story: the decree from Caesar Augustus, the shepherds in the fields, the "glory of the Lord" shining suddenly around them. But how accurate are those cherished images surrounding Jesus' birth? Luke, after all, comes third in the conventional sequence of the Gospels in the Bible-Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. That is also the order in which most churchgoers assume the Gospels were written. But if so, why would Matthew, who comes first, pass off the Nativity scene with a single sentence? Why does Mark, who comes next, not mention...
...question has long troubled biblical scholars, and today it is arising anew in learned conferences and treatises. The scholars assume that the earliest Gospel is the most authentic version of what Jesus actually said and did. Thus the question of accuracy could be at least partly answered if they could decide how, and in what order, the four evangelists came to set down their stories. A solution would have a vital bearing not only on Bethlehem's shepherds and angels, but on more fundamental Christian beliefs and attitudes...
Lost Sayings. In the 4th century, St. Augustine opted for the conventional biblical order; it prevailed as Catholic and, later, Protestant teaching until the 18th century. Then biblical scholars of the Enlightenment, becoming concerned about disparities in the internal chronology of the Gospels, reopened the issue. German Scholar Johann Griesbach, in 1774, performed one service by eliminating the Gospel of John from the dispute. He showed that John is distinct in style and content, whereas the other three share many parallel passages and signs of interdependence. Griesbach called them the "synoptic" Gospels, meaning that they should be "viewed together...
...sits down behind the organ and launches into a jazz-styled number called Do Your Own Thing. In the course of two hours he sings only six or seven pieces: long, intricate blends of soul, blues, rock, white pop and gospel, with titles like One Big Unhappy Family, I Stand Accused or Our Day Will Come! Then, tossing a handful of Isaac Hayes medallions to the crowd, he is gone, with no encores. The rite is over...