The Gospel of the Lord and Jesus and the Powers

The Gospel of the Lord

Name: The Gospel of the Lord
Price: 27.75 GBP
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Author: Michael F. Bird
ISBN: 9780802867766

How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus

by Michael F. Bird

Paperback
424 pages
Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
15 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm

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In this book Michael Bird describes how the canonical Gospels originated from a process of oral tradition, literary composition, textual development, and reception in the early church with a view to showing what makes them among the most important writings in the New Testament. Bird explores how the Christian movement shaped the Gospels and, conversely, how these writings shaped the early church. He develops a distinctive evangelical and critical approach to the Gospels, deals with the Synoptic problem head-on, and explains the significance of the fourfold Gospel canon. The book includes a number of helpful excursuses on related topics. All in all, Bird's Gospel of the Lord clarifies the often-confusing debates over the origins of the Gospels and offers informed and soundly argued explanations that account for the content of the Gospels in the context of the wider Greco-Roman world.