It is unlikely the gospels have ever left its walls.
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Conversely, researchers fret about the gospels' future in their current setting.
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Thus Mr Gervers suggests UNESCO should intervene to protect the gospels.
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The gospels describe how Christ fed a multitude with almost nothing.
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Like the Gospels, each is written with a different ideological agenda.
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Even the Gospels show the importance of women to Jesus's ministry.
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But the Gospels name virtually none of the women Jesus encountered.
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We need to squeeze it, just like they did with the Gospels.
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Perhaps my favorite passage in the gospels occurs in Mark 12:28-31.
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The gospels are pretty clear that the correct response to hate is love.
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It's one of several places in the Gospels where Jesus holds out that promise.
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Jesus exhibited that attitude by the kindness he showed individual Romans throughout the Gospels.
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JONES When you look in the Gospels, the stories are all over the place.
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It's increasingly difficult for him to reconcile the Gospels with the reality around him.
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"Everything we read about Jesus in the gospels conforms to the mythic hero," Price says.
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"Yet all the gospels have women as the first witnesses to Jesus' resurrection," he said.
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In one of the book's most surprising moments, she seeks solace in reading the Gospels.
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They point to Jesus' own words in the Gospels about loving your neighbor as yourself.
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The Easter stories in the Gospels have a jarring, unexpected quality about them as well.
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The gospels were placed there only briefly before the monks removed them to their customary home.
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It's like the gospels in the New Testament: the same story getting told in different ways.
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Do you share that, and if so, how do you account for contradictions within the Gospels?
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The Gospels themselves contain contradictions, especially in the details of Jesus's birth, death, and resurrection appearances.
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This makes them resistant to Francis's effort to return the church to the radicalism of the Gospels.
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Despite the name, this isn't a sci-fi epic, but a religious movie based on the gospels.
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Because the Gospels are a different type of literature than the primeval history of Genesis 1-11.
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The Gospels are full of Jesus treating women in a way that would have scandalized his contemporaries.
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We bow our heads as Blake's pastor prays and then offers words of comfort from the gospels.
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The Jesuit mission, El Progreso, practiced liberation theology, an interpretation of the Gospels which preaches social change.
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"The Young Messiah", "Risen" and "Last Days in the Desert" (2016) explored the chronological gaps in the Gospels.
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It's clear in reading the Gospels that the only people Jesus had problems with were the religious hypocrites.
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We know this story from the two sources in the New Testament: the gospels of Matthew and Luke.
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Clergy "bewitched" by politics, he told a French magazine this year, had misinterpreted the Gospels to defend migrants.
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In Christianity, however, divine speech continues through the Gospels—the apostle Paul converts after hearing Jesus admonish him.
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" He anticipated his fate: "Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter.
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They are artistic attempts to explain, or at the very least to explore, the chronological gaps in the Gospels.
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The Quran accepts both the Torah and the Gospels as having been divinely inspired but considers them now outmoded.
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Most scholars believe that eyewitnesses such as Matthew, Peter, John and Mary were major sources for the Gospels' accounts.
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That, of course, is the same thing that happened in the Gospels, when Peter denied Christ before the crucifixion.
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Matthew's work appears to have been based on the gospels of Mark and Luke, and real author is not known.
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That utterance from the cross, incidentally, is the only time Jesus uses the word "paradise" in any of the Gospels.
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The gospels refer to Mary as a "parthenos," which can be translated as "young woman" or "virgin," said the Rev.
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Sexual continence is important in Jesus's teaching in the Gospels, and it has been urged on bishops from the outset.
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To interweave the Gospels into a narrative is to create another work of fiction — and that can be wonderful indeed.
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Nine times in the gospels we are told that Jesus went away to a lonely place to be with the father.
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According to the Gospels, he had almost no traction among the learned mainstream, the people of power and wealth, the establishment.
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If you read the gospels, Jesus is always on the side of the marginalized, the wounded, those who've been cast out.
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The gospels repeatedly emphasize that the Christian life demands a rejection of the social status quo even when it is difficult.
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"It's not necessary to forgive seven times, but rather 70 times seven," Mr. Santos said, citing Jesus' words from the Gospels.
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The Gospels make women the most important witnesses to the resurrection at a time when women were literally and legally ignored.
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"The gospels are not designed to be journalistic documents," says Martin, who specializes in origins of Christianity and the New Testament.
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I can't drive, and besides I have never volunteered for one of those programs in which sentimental people, under the influence of the Gospels, consider all humans to be essentially victims of one another and of themselves and so go to visit even the worst offenders, bringing them copies of the Gospels and also sweaters they've knitted.
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Though I'm not a Christian, I know she loves reading the gospels to people—it's one of her favorite things to do.
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The ongoing dispute over where and how the gospels should be kept, and who may see them, is intensely local yet symbolic.
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Today a trickle of foreign academics arrive at Abba Garima's gates seeking the gospels' clues to the early history of eastern Christianity.
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The gospels of Christ, the service of Christ, and Christ's teachings about the poor, about helping neighbors -- she took them very, very literally.
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Yet in many ways this is in keeping with the narrative approach of the Gospels themselves, which both recorded and interpreted Jesus's life.
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In the Gospels, Jesus asks us to love one another, to place others' needs before our own, even to die for one another.
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The social teachings of the Gospels need not trouble the Christian conscience so long as the troubles predicted in Revelation come to pass.
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It fulsomely acknowledges its debt by declaring that it comes to confirm both the Torah and the Gospels — to renew their ethical traditions.
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But I think it's very different from the kind of appeal that Jesus appears to have been making as reported in the gospels.
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Someone who wanted privacy would most likely have had to "withdraw" to the countryside, as Jesus is frequently described doing in the Gospels.
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The gospels narrate the life of Jesus vividly, with two of them -- Matthew and Luke -- offering different versions of his birth -- the Christmas story.
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And because you read the variations of the story four times in the gospels, you have a lot of time to think about it.
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The idea of putting the gospels to the test as a piece of journalism is one that makes most secular historians a little uneasy.
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As we settle into Christmas and its festivities, I hope we allow Jesus to speak to us, as he did, so vividly in the gospels.
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The pious might frown upon such artistic license, yet they would do well to remember that the Gospels themselves are creative adaptations of historical events.
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Indeed, it is best to view the Gospels as ancient biographies; where modern biographers narrate facts, Gospel writers both chronicled and inferred meaning from history.
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The Christian Gospels were written in Greek, a language that Jesus and his followers didn't speak, and certainly couldn't read or write in (if they could read and write at all), and the version of the Jewish scriptures that the Gospels drew upon, the Septuagint, was also in Greek—which means that the Gospels as we have them emerged from behind a Hellenistic scrim.
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A potsherd with the word Herod, the notorious king from the Gospels, was found during excavations at the Judean monarch&aposs monumental tomb south of Jerusalem.
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That's true sometimes, but at heart, both sides desire to speak the same language: that of Jesus Christ—what he said and did in the gospels.
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Mention the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and a few things come to mind: the Viking raiders in 793 AD, the gospels, and a precarious causeway crossing.
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Passages from the Gospels that accompany the wall texts provide a historical backdrop dating the items to the era when Jesus is said to have lived.
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Unlike many of their predecessors, they tell stories that do not come directly from the Gospels, though they claim to be based on New Testament accounts.
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He was also able to take advantage of the oppressor's hypocrisy: slavery being a Christian institution, it was important to expose the slaves to the Gospels.
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Yet in the Gospels, Jesus seems to understand his vocation as having something to do with the curious apocalyptic phrase "Son of Man," his favourite self-reference.
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When the Cold War was at its height, she vociferously asserted that the Soviets differed from the Gospels only in the methods they used to achieve equality.
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In the Gospels, Jesus is described as angry many times, a stark contrast to the portrait many have of him as a doe-eyed man of peace.
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The centerpiece of each procession is a large float — intricately carved, beautifully decorated, about the size of a small automobile — that depicts a scene from the gospels.
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In fact, "Armenia!" is a rather bookish sort of blockbuster, concentrating heavily on illuminated manuscripts, and presented in low lighting to protect the gospels and romances on view.
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Even the frightening language used by Jesus in the Gospels, when read in the original Greek, fails to deliver the infernal dogmas we casually assume to be there.
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I'd been meaning for some time to read one of the Gospels straight through, to get the story directly from the approved source, so maybe that was it.
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So does Mr. Guirgis, whose vastly compassionate, darkly comic play cross-examines the Gospels, posing complex moral and spiritual questions about divine justice and human failures of virtue.
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On one level, Birth of a Nation is an unexpectedly complex film about Christian faith, as Turner learns how the Gospels can be both a comfort and a weapon.
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One reason the Gospels are so powerful and durable is that they seem at once unnecessarily repetitive and frustratingly unfinished, even when they have been "finished" by later hands.
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At a moment of crisis and despair, he suddenly abandoned his lifelong casual attitude to religion and plunged into several years of intense devotion — praying, worshiping, studying the Gospels.
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Mary Magdalene didn't initially recognize the risen Jesus, nor did some disciples, and the gospels are fuzzy about Jesus' literal presence — especially Mark, the first gospel to be written.
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The life of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the Gospels, is bracketed by memorable actions on the part of two powerful men: a king and a Roman governor.
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The strength of "Locusts Have No King," which takes its title from the Book of Proverbs and its characters' names from the Gospels, is in its emotional and philosophical underpinnings.
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History of revelation and conquest Islam stems from the Judeo-Christian tradition, and holds that other holy texts including the Torah, the Psalms, and the Gospels were revealed during previous months of Ramadan.
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According to legend the gospels—written in the ancient language of Ge'ez—are the work of Abba (Father) Garima, a Byzantine prince who founded the monastery in the 5th or early 6th century.
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The notion of a "trial," suggested in the Gospels, was probably a literary convention; there is little evidence that a formal procedure took place, but Jesus was certainly interrogated and very likely tortured.
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He and Ms. Alicea had moved beyond a basic dictionary and grammar books into the first translations of the Bible, including parts of Genesis and sections of New Testament books like the Gospels.
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But in "Verse 43," Whitman, that aspirational American, claims "the greatest of faiths," one that encompasses "worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern," that accepts the Gospels and the Qur'an alike.
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It was only in the sixth century that she was transformed from a follower of Christ in the Gospels into a prostitute, her body then a battleground for sin and holiness, thus something supernatural.
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"I'd never heard of the pagan roots of Christianity, or basic information surrounding how the gospels were written, how many copy errors there were, or that we don't have the original documents," he says.
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Before this project, I thought the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke included the same stories and parables, with just slightly different details, and each week at Mass the readings rotated between the four versions.
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" James compared trendier systems of religious thought (ideas that resemble what we call New Age) to the gospels because of "the adequacy of their message to the mental needs of a large fraction of mankind.
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It was going to be tied to one of that day's Bible readings: Matthew 14:803-33, the section of the gospels where Jesus encourages his disciple Peter to come to him over a stormy sea.
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By the middle ages, she'd been conflated with another Mary (there are a lot of Marys in the gospels), the "sinful woman" or prostitute named in Luke who washed Jesus's feet with perfume and her hair.
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Jesus was Jewish, of course, and exorcisms in the Gospels (such when he drives demons into a herd of pigs) are consonant with the practices of other messianic groups of the era, such as the Essenes.
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Among the Gospels, I've put the most weight on the Gospel of Mark, because it was the first written, and have skeptically pestered pastors about why Mark doesn't mention the Virgin Birth or describe the Resurrection.
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There are abbreviated vignettes of Mary and Joseph and Jesus, of the other, earlier Joseph, of Moses and Aaron, and of Jacob and Isaac and Abraham, with echoes of the Psalms and the Gospels found everywhere.
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James Martin's new book on L.G.B.T. Catholics, "Building a Bridge," I learned that according to the Gospels, when Jesus meets people who feel like they are on the margins, his instinctive response is to welcome them.
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Focusing primarily on minor characters from the Gospels — the Samaritan woman at the well, a crucified thief, the disciple Andrew — the book conjures more power from (and for) its shadowy central figure than it might have.
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The Gospels preach economic redistribution—"Let him who has two tunics share with him who has none," and so on—but everyone around me seemed mainly to believe in low taxes and the righteousness of war.
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The dove is best known in the Bible as a symbol of the Holy Spirit, and in the Gospels the dove alights on Jesus when he is baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River.
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Its adherents might squabble, but their differences lead them back, eventually, to a mutual inheritance: the words of Jesus in the Gospels, the lives of the saints, the rhythms of the liturgy, the catechism of the Church.
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Their clergy were set apart from their adherents by preparation, five years of training in the case of the Waldensians, who memorized the gospels of Matthew and John as well as sections of the writings of Paul.
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As I've understood it, one of the things people love the most about the Gospels' stories about Jesus is that he hung out with the lepers and prostitutes, the destitute, the outsiders, and didn't pander to the establishment.
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One volume here, flamboyantly illuminated by Sargis Pidzak in 1331, is open to a picture of a priest praying before St. Matthew in a field of gold leaf, while initial letters of the Gospels dance with the angels.
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Brown has been fascinated with both elements of his subject for a long time: Prostitution was the subject of his 2011 memoir, "Paying for It," and his early comics included remarkable adaptations of the Gospels of Mark and Matthew.
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Fundamentalists may cite the Gospels to oppose same-sex marriage or ordination of women, or the Torah to displace Palestinians, or the Quran to justify violence — but all that is abuse of sacred texts and the role they play.
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Mocking the words of Lincoln about slavery taken from the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, he divides our American house against itself almost every day, in almost every way, tearing apart the fabric of what holds us together. Sen.
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In part, the mystification of the disciples — presumably the ones who would have spirited away the corpse if it were all a hoax — is, from this perspective, the most compelling evidence of the accuracy of the events reported in the Gospels.
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They vividly depict, on one wing, an Annunciation and a Nativity scene, and on the other a Crucifixion, which is notable for a threatening blue-black mass in its upper corner: the darkened sun, as described in three of the gospels.
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But I've studied the scriptures carefully, especially the gospels and Paul's letters, and I see no reason to capitulate to this downsized version of Easter weekend, with a vengeful God putting up his own son on a cross for satisfaction of some kind.
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I've read a lot of people's opinions on who Jesus was and because the gospels are so contradictory and in certain ways fake, it's easy to read almost anything into Jesus, and interpret the material to justify whatever position you're coming from.
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Ronald Garan, an American cosmonaut (and fighter pilot) who is a devout Catholic, once soared up to space accompanied by relics of Therese of Lisieux, a French Catholic saint who had expressed the longing to "preach the Gospels on all continents simultaneously".
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During the next twenty years, this incandescent missionary visited Christian churches and communities from Corinth to Antioch; and when he could not reach them he wrote to them, setting down the epistles that form (with the Gospels) the core of the New Testament.
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Lacking an unfolding story, like that of Genesis or the Gospels—with their graphic-novel episodes so easily depicted on the Sistine ceiling or in Padua's Arena Chapel—it is a poem meant to be chanted, not a tale meant to be tracked.
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Wills is hardly so presumptuous as to try to explain what the Quran means — or "meant," that past tense evidently the heavy hand of the marketing department trying to link to previous Wills books on what Jesus, the Gospels and Paul all meant.
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"I slowly reacquainted myself with the Jesus of my childhood, that eerie figure that moves through the Gospels, the man of sorrows, and it was through him that I was given a chance to redefine my relationship with the world," Cave wrote in 1996.
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When he found out that Jefferson had created his own bible by cutting and pasting parts of the Gospels into a single text, Mr. Carter began to imagine a stage production where it would be read by four actors, one for each of the Evangelists.
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Each of the gospels includes an incipit page, an introductory sheet that states "here begins the narrative," which is richly framed in a large rectangle, drawing on additional interlaced and floral patterns, and brings to mind the older and more elaborate Book of Kells.
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A third scenario would see religious leaders repudiating this latest display of hatred masquerading as piety, promoted by phony Christians who believe the Gospels, which they've obviously never read, require them to deny certain people their God-given rights — when in fact the exact opposite is true.
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Working both from the Gospels and from ancient texts, Aldo Schiavone, a professor of Roman law based at the University of Rome La Sapienza, provides a fresh perspective in "Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory" and, in the process, offers new insights into the final days of Jesus.
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"I love looking at people who know they are about to die," says her tormentor, who having lured her into this tight spot with a lecture on Gnosticism and a grueling group demonstration of extreme sadomasochism, now blathers on about Socrates and the Gospels of Mark and Matthew.
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The easiest way to understand the Christian church's calendar is as a sort of live immersive theater, designed by tradition to reenact the life of Jesus every year from Christmas (birth) to Easter (resurrection), with readings in traditional churches that revisit stories from the gospels each year during that time.
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But with the passing of actor Christopher Evan Welch, who played eccentric VC Peter Gregory, the show has shifted some more of the Thiel satire onto Gavin, who considers his closest friends to be his devoted private security guard and a hackish life coach who preaches the gospels of meditation.
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For instance, a set of Alabaster jars on display alludes to a certain Sabbath day described in the Gospels of Luke, when Mary Magdalene (or Mary of Bethany, depending on the source) anoints the feet of Jesus with an oil kept in what would have been the same type of jar.
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That relationship also reveals itself in more common daily moments too: when someone offers you a kind word in the midst of a painful time, when you feel the first warm springtime breeze after a seemingly endless winter, when you hear a line from the Gospels that hits your heart like an arrow.
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A little of this mystery still clings to their pages: when Mr de Hamel takes the Gospels of St Augustine (pictured) to a service in Canterbury Cathedral he notices that its leaves are so light they flutter and hum in time to a hymn, "as if the sixth-century manuscript…had come to life".
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The precise route of the dedicated 50KB/second long-distance telephone lines connecting UCLA and SRI's ARPANET nodes isn't well-documented, but it's possible the first transmission traveled north in cables along California's Highway 101, over parts of the eighteenth-century path that connected Spanish Catholic missions transmitting the Gospels to the native Ohlone.
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"Tony Campolo, a founder of the Red Letter Christian Movement, added that "the true Jesus is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, but what I often hear preached on some radio and television programs seems to me to be an American Jesus who differs from the Jesus that I read about in the gospels, and often comes across as being politically partisan.
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