{"product_id":"9780802877598","title":"Gospel and the Gospels","description":"\u003cp\u003eA robust scholarly defence of the distinctiveness of the canonical Gospels.   Do  the four New Testament gospels share some essence that distinguishes  them from noncanonical early Gospels? The tendency among biblical  scholars of late has been to declare the answer to this question no-that  Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were grouped together by happenstance and  are defended as canonical today despite there being no essential  commonalities between them.   Simon Gathercole challenges this  prevailing view and argues that in fact the theological content of the  New Testament Gospels distinguishes them substantially from noncanonical  Gospels. Gathercole shows how the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and  John each include four key points that also formed the core of early  Christian preaching and teaching: Jesus's identity as messiah, the  saving death of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, and Scripture's  foretelling of the Christ event. In contrast, most noncanonical  Gospels-like the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Truth, and Marcion's Gospel-only selectively appropriated these central concerns of early Christian proclamation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EERDMANS ACADEMIC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52039238811922,"sku":"9780802877598","price":89.96,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9780802877598.jpg?v=1774736039","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9780802877598","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}