Essays on Gospel

Introduction: Coming to Terms with the Problem Most everyone who reads the Synoptic Gospels observes similarities that exist among them; their passages are very similar in content and structure which would make one think the authors borrowed material from each other or perhaps at all the same sources. However they are equally different in content…

All of the miracles can be broken down in lactation’s of three categories, controlling nature, healing people, and raising the dead. The vast majority of his miracles were in accord with healing individuals, which seem to be his specialty. The purpose of the essay is to propose three pros and cons of why people should…

St John the Evangelist, the beloved Apostle of Jesus, was the son of Zebedee and brother of St. James the Great. John was the youngest of the apostles, and he defined himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved. According to tradition, in 49 AD, John settled at Ephesus, where the witnessed the assumption of the…

The Didache’s authenticity, since its inception, has been a centre of controversy and debate among religious and philosophical scholars.  This is in large part, brought about by the timelines of authorship among Jewish and Christian literature.  Likewise, more specific examples are contained within recent theories, publications, and journals which connote a connection between the Didache…

Thomas A. Dorsey and the Gospel Sound Gospel music, the infusion of traditional spirituals and hymns with the rhythms of jazz and blues, was born in the early 20th century with the African American church as its birthplace.  It is a musical genre which varies in flavor as well as style and differs according to social…

The gospel of Matthew and MarkThe term gospel, in Christianity translates as good news.   A gospel is one of the four canonical books in the New Testament that describes the life, ministry, teachings and the death of Jesus (Achtemeier, Green & Thompson, 2001).  Four gospels are officially recognized by the New Testament out of…

esus is true and not just made up?There are several ways in which we can be assured that what we are taught about Jesus is true and not just made up. These are called our faith sources. These sources, like the Bible and other sources of information about Jesus have accounts of Jesus life. The…

The New Testament includes four Gospels, referred to as the “Synoptic Gospels,” that exhibit comparable literary patterns and themes extensively analyzed by scholars. Nevertheless, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John possess both similarities and differences. The inquiry into which Gospel was composed first and the extent to which the authors relied on oral tradition, written sources,…

The Synoptic Problem is the term used by New Testament scholars to describe the “study of the similarities and differences between” the three Synoptic Gospels “in an attempt to explain their literary relationships” (Goodacre 16). Of the four gospels contained in the New Testament, three, namely Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as the Synoptics….