Originally published as Inoculating Against the Gospel on Preachers Institute in January 2010, this article is one of our most popular and clearly belongs in the "Bad Sermons 101" category. The questions a preacher must consider when preparing his sermon are many. One such question must be: “Is my … [Read more...]
What Did The Jews Identify the Gospel With? Part Two
by Fr. Patrick Henry ReardonIt is reasonable, I suppose---or at least natural---for modern students of religion to wonder how the earliest Christians, all them Jews, were able to reconcile their belief in the divinity of Christ with the monotheism enshrined in Israel’s Sh'ma'. Indeed, historians of … [Read more...]
What Did Jews Identify the Gospel With?
by Fr. Patrick Henry ReardonThe very notion of the "Gospel," the Evangelion, lies so deep in Christian memory that it takes on a tautological quality, as it were: The Gospel is the Gospel. The "idea" of it is so integral to what we mean by "Christian" that the two concepts can hardly be dissected. … [Read more...]
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