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.

‘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 ...

The canonical gospels, Jenkins writes, "really do take us directly to the world of Christ and his immediate followers in ways that no other candidate can or ever could." ...

A round 800, an unknown Irish monastery listed the appropriate liturgical readings for different feast days. For the mass of the circumcision, the text for the day came from the Gospel of James, ...

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 four canonical gospels provide the most data we have for a biography of Jesus, which I will sketch in future columns. But to do so, we must first understand the “Two-Source Hypothesis” of ...

The canonical gospels were written “that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name” (John 20:31).