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11 - Non-canonical Gospels as Witnesses to Christ

from Part II - The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2021

By
Simon Gathercole
Edited by
Stephen C. Barton  and
Todd Brewer
Stephen C. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

Simon Gathercole surveys the various non-canonical gospels and their respective christologies. He first orients the reader to the field of research, noting the competitive positioning of non-canonical gospels relative to the four canonical gospels. He then shows how more recent scholarship has sought either to blur the canonical boundary or to compare and contrast the canonical gospels with their non-canonical counterparts in respect of history, theology and ethics.

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non-canonical gospelsfourfold gospelNew Testament canonearly Christianitytheologyethicsgospel genre
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 219 - 239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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