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	Gospel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two non-canonical gospels that are considered to be among the earliest in composition are the sayings Gospel of Thomas and the narrative Gospel of Peter.
		The dating of the Gospel of Thomas is particularly controversial, as there is some suspicion in critical schools of scholarship that it predates the canonical Gospels, which would, if conclusively proven, have a profound impact on the understanding of their origin.
		A passage from one of the gospels is placed between the Alleluia or Tract and the Credo in the Mass.
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		The two earliest non-canonical gospels are the sayings Gospel of Thomas and the narrative Gospel of Peter.
		Gospels that were not accepted, which form part of the New Testament Apocrypha, include:
		Typically, the Gospel is publicly read by a deacon after he receives a blessing from the celebrating priest or bishop.
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	Gospel of Matthew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gospel of Matthew (literally: according to Matthew, Greek: Κατά Μαθθαίον or Κατά Ματθαίον) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament.
		Liberal scholars usually date the gospel between the years 80 and 100, in part because they believe the reference to the temple's impending destruction shows it actually was written after the fact.
		Scholars who defend a later date for the gospel cite multiple reasons for their view, such as the time required for the theological views to develop between Mark and Matthew (assuming Markan priority), references to historic figures and events circa 70, and a later social context.
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	Gospel and Gospels
		Thus, "the Gospel according to Matthew" is equivalent to the Gospel history in the form in which St. Matthew put it in writing; "the Gospel according to Mark" designates the same Gospel history in another form, viz, in that in which St. Mark presented it in writing, etc. (cf.
		From the outset, the four Gospels, the sacred character of which was thus recognized very early, differed in several respects from the numerous uncanonical Gospels which circulated during the first centuries of the Church.
		Lastly, and more particularly, the canonical Gospels were regarded as of Apostolic authority, two of them being ascribed to the Apostles St. Matthew and St. John, respectively, and two to St. Mark and St. Luke, the respective companions of St. Peter and St. Paul.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/gospel_and_gospels.html (3532 words)

	Canonical Gospels or Other Gospels: What’s the Difference? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The canonical gospels agree that Jesus really was a man who experienced hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and disappointment as he walked the roads of Palestine with his disciples (which did include a number of women).
		Taking all this together and keeping in mind their evident differences, the canonical gospels are appropriately defined as early Christian works that seek to present the significance and meaning of the death and resurrection of Jesus by placing them in their proper religious-historical context, which includes, of course, the events of Jesus’ public career.
		For these gospels, the crucified and resurrected Jesus was certainly the culmination of the Jewish story and the key to all history; but just as certainly for them, the truth and precise significance of this claim were still live issues within the communities for whom they were written.
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	USCCB - NAB - Luke - Introduction
		No gospel writer is more concerned with the role of the Spirit in the life of Jesus and the Christian disciple (Luke 1:35, 41; 2:25-27; 4:1, 14, 18; 10:21; 11:13; 24:49), with the importance of prayer (Luke 3:21; 5:16; 6:12; 9:28; 11:1-13; 18:1-8), or with Jesus' concern for women (Luke 7:11-17, 36-50; 8:2-3; 10:38-42).
		Early Christian tradition, from the late second century on, identifies the author of this gospel and of the Acts of the Apostles as Luke, a Syrian from Antioch, who is mentioned in the New Testament in Col 4:14, Philippians 1:24 and 2 Tim 4:11.
		The prologue of the gospel makes it clear that Luke is not part of the first generation of Christian disciples but is himself dependent upon the traditions he received from those who were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word (Luke 1:2).
	www.usccb.org /nab/bible/luke/intro.htm (755 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Testament
		The Gospels are subdivided into two groups, those which are commonly called synoptic (Matthew, Mark, Luke), because their narratives are parallel, and the fourth Gospel (that of St. John), which to a certain extent completes the first three.
		Everybody agrees that the first three Gospels reflect the beliefs regarding Jesus Christ and his work current among Christians during the last quarter of the first century, that is to say at a distance of forty or fifty years from the events.
		Natural morality in the Gospel is raised to a higher sphere by the counsels of perfection (poverty and chastity), which may be summed up as the positive renouncement of the material goods of this life, in so far as they hinder our being completely given up to the service of God.
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	The Gospel of Thomas: Frequently Asked Questions
		Unless it is merely a collection of materials that mainly were drawn out of the Biblical gospels, as seems unlikely for most if not all of Thomas' sayings, then Thomas is the most important historical source for knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth that exists outside of the Bible.
		The four canonical gospels and Thomas and other gospels such as the Gospel of Philip (found at Nag Hammadi) were given their names some time in the second century.
		The name of the person who supposedly wrote the Gospel of Thomas is given in the first lines of the text as "didymos Judas thomas." The word "didymos" is Greek for twin and the word "thomas" is Aramaic for twin.
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	Gospel
		For the novel by Wilton Barnhardt, see Gospel: a novel, for the manga, see One-Pound Gospel.
		The entirity of the four Gospels is read in the course of the liturgical year, beginning with John 1:1-17 at the Paschal Matins Resurrection Service.
		This practice continues through Holy Week, with the exception of Matins of Great and Holy Friday, during which the 12 Passion Gosples are read, and the service culminates with a prossesion with a large wodden replica of the Cross, borne by the Priest to the ambo, and Christ is symbolically crucified on it.
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	Excerpt from the Introduction to The Complete Gospels
		The New Testament gospels are complex works of literature that draw on a variety of oral and written sources of tradition, some from Jesus and some about him, such as miracle stories, collections of his parables and sayings, traditions about his birth and childhood, and stories about his death and resurrection.
		Besides the four New Testament gospels, there is what may be called a miracle gospel (the Signs Gospel), infancy gospels (the Infancy Gospels of Thomas and James), and a passion gospel (Gospel of Peter).
		The distinction between the canonical and the non-canonical gospels did not exist in the period of Christian origins, and therefore is not helpful for understanding the earliest centuries of Christianity in their rich diversity.
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	TBK - The "Historical" Jesus?
		As concerns the order in which the gospels were written, the priority of Mark was proposed as early as 1786 by Storr and argued in detail by Christian Wilke in 1838.
		Thus, the Memoirs text is not the same as the canonical gospels, and the mention of and quotation from this book does not serve as evidence of the existence of the gospels.
		Concerning the early use of the word "Gospel," Ellegard evinces that it referred to the "florilegia, anthologies of Biblical passages, which were evidently popular reading among the Saints," i.e., the Jewish Messianic Hagioi who made up the elders of the pre-Christian churches of God found scattered throughout the empire.
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	The origins of the gospels.
		Neither Matthew nor Mark is reported to have written anything but a gospel (even if the gospel in question at times overlaps the Jewish gospels, in the case of Matthew, or the secret gospel, in the case of Mark).
		The origin of our fourth canonical gospel, that of John, is the most complex of all, since it is bound up with the three Johannine epistles (1, 2, and 3 John) and the apocalypse of John, also known as Revelation.
		This gospel, then, after the apocalypse was written was made manifest and given to the churches in Asia by John, as yet constituted in the body, as the Hieropolitan, Papias by name, disciple of John and dear [to him], transmitted in his Exoteric, that is, the outside five books.
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	The Gospel According to Matthew
		Yet the nature of this 'gospel' is uncertain, since (a) it is presented as a parallel to the oral 'preaching' of Peter and Paul and (b) the contents are left unspecified.
		In antiquity a written 'gospel' could be anything from a sayings collection (like Thomas) to a compilation of independent anecdotes (like Signs) to a connected biographical narrative (like Luke) to a theological treatise (like the Valentinian 'Gospel of Truth').
		The possibility that the author of the Gospel of Matthew had Zoroastrian contacts is reflected his depiction of Satan as a "tempter" and in the prominent place given in his birth narrative to the
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	The Gospel of Thomas. A worthless document
		The unique form of the Gospel of Thomas seems to indicate that its background differed considerably from that which lay behind the collecting of sayings of Jesus which are thought to have existed in the beginning of the gospel tradition.
		Koester says the Gospel of Thomas [Koes.Traj, 119], along with other similar writings, "must be considered as historically of equal value with the canonical writings; they cannot be depreciated by reason of their noncanonical nature." Let's break down the arguments used to declare pieces of GThom to be earlier than the canonical Gospels.
		Indeed, it may even be that the Gospel of Thomas is directly dependent not on the four canonical Gospels, but on some conflation of them that had already been composed in Greek.
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	Apocryphal Gospels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		There is one citation (in two places) of a "Secret Gospel of Mark." Legend has it that before Mark wrote his canonical gospel, he wrote down a collection of sayings of Jesus expressly for Jesus' followers.
		Not all works called "gospels" are written in the teaching styles of the canonical or traditional gospels and therefore are not classified here.
		The Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery, based loosely on the canonical gospel of John, but created by Muslims.
	www.friktech.com /rel/canon/gospels.htm (657 words)

	Gospel and Gospels
		This was, of course, the sole meaning connected with the word, so long as no authentic record of the glad tidings of salvation by Christ had been drawn up.
		, so the several records of it were not regarded as several Gospels, but only as distinct accounts of one and the same Gospel.
		Himself did not consign to writing His own teachings, and directed His Apostles not to write, but to preach, the Gospel to their fellow-men.
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	Egerton Gospel
		Egerton Papyrus 2: Fragments from a Gospel Codex
		The Egerton Gospel does have very close parallels to John, but because Egerton's versions of these parallels show less development than John's, Egerton may preserve earlier forms of the tradition.
		The most likely explanation for the Egerton Gospel's similarities and differences from the canonical gospels is that Egerton's author made independent use of traditional sayings and stories of Jesus that also were used by the other gospel writers.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /egerton.html (488 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gospel and Gospels
		The same thing must be said with regard to the Syriac harmony of the canonical Gospels, which was framed by St.
		Of these testimonies of the second century two are particularly worthy of notice, viz, those of St.
		It is found in the Canon of Muratori, in St. Irenæus, in St.
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	Encyclopedia Coptica: The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church Of Egypt
		The Coptic Church is based on the teachings of Saint Mark who brought Christianity to Egypt during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero in the first century, a dozen of years after the Lord's ascension.
		He was one of the four evangelists and the one who wrote the oldest canonical gospel.
		Copts observe seven canonical sacraments: Baptism, Christmation (Confirmation), Eucharist, Confession (Penance), Orders, Matrimony, and Unction of the sick.
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		Gospels that were not accepted, which form part of the New Testament Apocrypha, include: Gospel of Thomas Gospel of Philip Gospel of Peter Gospel of Mary Gospel of the Egyptians Gospel of the Hebrews Gospel of James Gospel of Judas
		In his central work, Adversus Haereses Irenaeus denounced various Christian groups that used only one gospel, such as Aramaic Matthew, as well as groups that embraced the texts of new revelations, such as the Valentinians (A.H. Irenaeus declared that the four he espoused were the four pi...
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	Gospel of Barnabas
		The Gospel of Barnabas was accepted as a Canonical Gospel in the Churches of Alexandria till 325 C.E. In 325 C.E., the Nicene Council was held, where it was ordered that all original Gospels in Hebrew script should be destroyed.
		An Edict was issued that any one in possession of these Gospels will be put to death.
		It should be noted that while presenting the Gospel, chapter headings have been added by us and are not part of the Gospel's text.
	www.barnabas.net (224 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Luke the Apostle
		Legend has that he was also a painter who may have done portraits of Jesus and Mary, but none have ever been correctly or definitively attributed to him; this story, and the inspiration his Gospel has always given artists, led to his patronage of them.
		He met Saint Paul at Troas, and evangelized Greece and Rome with him, being there for the shipwreck and other perils of the voyage to Rome, and stayed in Rome for Paul's two years of in prison.
		Wrote the Gospel According to Luke, much of which was based on the teachings and writings of Paul, interviews with early Christians, and his own experiences.
	www.catholicforum.com /saints/saintl06.htm (254 words)

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