Word: thirdhand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very tight little ship. You couldn't get to the candidate himself, so you had to take too much second- or even thirdhand. The candidate had some very good people around, but they were always hiding him from...
...view of numerous academicians, the anonymous authors of the four Gospels (later conventionally labeled Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were working from second- and thirdhand materials, passed along by word of mouth for some decades before being written down. Consequently, the Gospels cannot be taken as gospel; that is, they cannot in every instance be considered as describing actual events. "The New Testament is the testimony of believing people," says the liberal Catholic Theologian Edward Schillebeeckx of the Netherlands. "What they are saying is not history but expressions of their belief in Jesus as Christ...