“It has forgotten that the gospels are replete with atonement theology, through and through—only they give it to us not as a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture. Each evening I… — Brant Hansen Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and… — John Drane Copy Share Image
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the… — Clark Durant Copy Share Image
“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the… — Alvar Ellegård Copy Share Image
All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
“If Jesus really were equal with God from “the beginning,” before he came to earth, and he knew it, then surely the… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
“By the time these stories were written, six decades had passed since the crucifixion. In that time, the evangelists had heard just… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs,… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark,… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“[The gospels] are not merely antiquarian documents telling a strange story about a powerful but now long-gone moment of history. They are… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
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