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The gospel or good news is a theological concept in several religions. In the historical Roman imperial cult and today in Christianity , the gospel is a message about salvation by a divine figure, a savior, who has brought peace or other benefits to humankind.
Gospel is the Old English translation of the Hellenistic Greek term ... but over the expanse of the Roman Empire (some 2,500 miles across), with thousands of ...
The reference to "the gospel of God" in this salutation is distinctive. [1] The phrase appears again in Romans 15:16. William Sanday reflects that the ambiguous genitive, the gospel of God, seems to mean "the gospel which proceeds from God", or "of which God is the author", rather than "the gospel of which God is the object". [12]
Churches had been planted in the Roman provinces of Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia and Asia. Paul, considering his task complete, wanted to preach the gospel in Spain, where he would not "build upon another man's foundation". [26] [27] This allowed him to visit Rome on the way, a long-time ambition of his. The letter to the Romans, in part ...
Papyrus Cairensis 10735 – 6th or 7th century Greek fragment, possibly from a lost gospel, may be a homily or commentary. Papyrus Merton 51 – fragment from apocryphal gospel or a homily on Luke 6:7. Strasbourg Fragment – fragment of a lost gospel, likely related to Acts of John.
Second part of the calendar inscription of Priene. The Priene calendar inscription (IK Priene 14) is an inscription in stone recovered at Priene (an ancient Greek city, in Western Turkey) that records an edict by Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of the Roman province of Asia and a decree of the conventus of the province accepting the edict from 9 BC.
Alan Kirk objected to Walsh's view that the theorized Q source is a primarily Greco-Roman work, questioning how her view accounts for the traction the gospels found amongst early Christians. He argued that "[Sarah] Rollens, on the other hand, with her 'peasant intellectuals' analog has a model in hand much superior to Walsh's in its capacity to ...
The Book of Kells, c. 800, an illuminated manuscript showing the lavishly decorated text that opens the Gospel of John.. A Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels (Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον, Evangélion) is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament – normally all four – centering on the life of Jesus of Nazareth and the ...