About the Gospels

The chapters were originally broadcast as part of the Sunday morning services of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

C. H. Dodd (Author)

9780521097451, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 November 2008

56 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 0.3 cm, 0.07 kg

By recovering the world for whom the first three gospels were written, Professor Dodd, in this short book, confers upon his readers the ability to make fresh approach and a new understanding to turn a worn-out experience into tone that is vivd and moving. He discusses the events of the Old World into which the gospels entered, their date of writing, their authenticity in the light of modern biblical criticism, the early communities of Christians whose needs the gospels met and the fundamentals of early Christian society. All is tersely dealt with, but one feels the authority of learning behind the summary. The chapters were originally broadcast as part of the Sunday morning services of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

1. The Beginnings of Gospel Writing
2. The Living Tradition
3. The Development of Gospel Writing
4. The Interpretation of the Gospel.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA]