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Wayne G Rollins
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The Gospels: Portraits of Christ |
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Hardcover |
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128 |
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1963 |
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B0007DO7XG |
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Westminster Press |
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0.35 pounds |
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5.2 x 8.0 x 0.7 inches |
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64-10044 |
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Product Description
Far from being carbon copies of one another, the Gospels represent four individual approaches to God, to the world, to man, and above all to the one they call Jesus the Christ. The purpose of this book is to examine how each Gospel writer, heeding the patterns and rhythms of his own mind, portrays Jesus in the setting of his own world. Dr. Rollins' essential concern is theological. The five chapters are entitled: **The New Approach; **The Gospel of Mark: A Religious-Existential Approach; **The Gospel of Matthew: An Ethical-Apocalyptic Approach; **The Gospel of Luke: An Aesthetic-Historical Approach; **The Gospel of John: A Paradoxical-Mystical Approach. A brief postscript suggests the implications of the method and of the resultant portraits for present-day Christians as they "proclaim" their own inevitably unique renditions of the "good news" in their own habitats. The diversity of the Gospels and their Christology is, Dr. Rollins believes, an asset to faith's understanding. The Christ event becomes available through four perspectives rather than one each capturing an edge of reality. Moreover in their diversity the Gospel portraits exemplify the New Testament injunction that new wine must be put into new wineskins, and they provide models for the continuing attempts at Christological portraiture undertaken by novelists, poets, playwrights, and theologians who find themselves moved by and drawn to the original event.
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