Noun

Singular gospel

Plural gospels

gospel (plural gospels)

1. The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the life, death, and teachings of Jesus.
2. An account of the life, death, and teachings of Jesus, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era.
3. A message expected to have positive reception or effect.
4. (Protestantism) the teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments
5. (uncountable) gospel music

Synonyms

• evangel

Finnish

A gospel (from Old English, gōd spell cf Germanic gut + speil "good news") is a writing that describes the life, ministry, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. The word is primarily used to refer to the four canonical gospels: the Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John although it is also used for non-canonical writings such as the Gospel of Thomas. The term "Gospel" refers also to the message itself of the four Gospels or of the whole New Testament. See the separate article here.

Gospel, in Christianity, (from Old English, gōd spell "good news"), is that which is contained in the first four books of the New Testament that describe the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus.

Sourced

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.
  • Max Müller, p. 287.

• It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.
  • Horace Bushnell, p. 288.

• O, marvelous power of the Divine seed, which overpowers the strong man armed, softens obdurate hearts, and changes into divine men those who were brutalized in sin, and removed to an infinite distance from God.
  • John Wycliffe, p. 288.

• No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ."
  • Max Müller, p. 288.

• The main object of the gospel is to establish two principles, — the corruption of nature, and the redemption by Jesus Christ.
  • Blaise Pascal, p. 288.

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