‘Forgotten Gospel’ That Has Come to Light After 80 Years Challenges the Very Foundation of Christianity For decades, Christianity has stood on the foundation of four canonical gospels (Matthew ...

LeCompte said apocryphal gospels refers to the general category of spiritually based writings. Some of these texts are canonical -- considered Scripture by the church -- as well as Gnostic.

They were not canonical, and as far as we can tell from the earliest discussions of the Gospels, in Irenaeus, the Muratorian Canon , and in Eusebius (reporting on the writing of the 2nd century ...

How believers in the first millennium read non-canonical texts. If the life of Jesus were fully recorded, the books would overflow the world. So John the Evangelist says at the close of his gospel ...

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Were the lost gospels really lost? The myth that alternative gospels were suppressed by empire and only recently rediscovered is too good to be true.

The four canonical gospels provide the most data we have for a biography of Jesus, which I will sketch in future columns.

One particular and prominent subset of these are what is called the “infancy gospels,” stories of Jesus during his childhood. Little is said of Jesus’ youth in the four canonical gospels ...

Nov 09, 2024 17:00:00 What is the 'Q Source Hypothesis' that explores the origins of the Gospels, the canonical texts of Christianity? The New Testament , the canonical book of Christianity ...

The canonical gospels were all first-century documents; all four offer credible eyewitness accounts of Jesus of Nazareth. The apocryphal gospels, written generations later, can barely compete with ...

A recently discovered 1,600-year-old papyrus is the earliest known manuscript of the Infancy Gospel. The apocryphal stories about Jesus' childhood fascinate the world, but they aren't new.