Gospels are the books that some of the disciples- followers of Jesus wrote. They are significant because try accurately tell of jesus' life and death. The gospels in The Bible are: Mathew, Mark, Luke and John
It prevented Islam from becoming a dominant religion in Northern Europe and allowed Christianity a fighting chance.
A:Not all the gospels are in the New Testament. Of the dozens of gospels that were written, the Church Fathers chose the four gospels that most closely represented the form of Christianity that they preached, and which they were willing to assert to have truly been written during apostolic times. Even the Gospel of Thomas, which may have been the earliest gospel, was omitted. Rather than select just one of the four, Irenaeus insisted there must be four gospels. This could be justified because Matthew places Jesus in an Old Testament context better than the others, Luke seems to place Jesus in a historical context and John is the only gospel that says that Jesus was divine.
well this is comin from a 13 year old.. so i say that it is Christianity is a very big religion. if you are catholic you are a cristian, but you are practicing the catholic religion. Christianity is all over the world. it gets spread there everyday. its even in India! so yeah Christianity is a very big deal.
Conflict did not exist between the medieval mind and Christianity as most people then understood Christianity. The Christianity of the medieval period followed the thinking of St Augustine. A few Protestants existed like Occum, Abelard, and Wycliffe, but most were Roman Catholics.
Many practices and customs of Pagan people were so deeply rooted in the hearts of the Pagan people that the Christians wanted to convert so they found ways of combining them into the new practices of Christianity to make it easier for converting Pagan people to Christianity.
There are four gospels of Christianity, each starting in very different ways...
A:I believe that the Gnostic gospels are no more or less true than the gospels that were accepted by the dominant brach of Christianity, becoming part of what we now know as the New Testament. The incompatibility between the Gnostic gospels and the form of Christian teaching in the 'Catholic-Orthodox' Church inevitably meant that the Gnostic gospels would be banned, along with the Gnostic Churches.
Sure! Read the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
The Gospels were written about Jesus of Nazareth (in Galilee), the founding-figure of Christianity, whose followers believed him to be the expected Jewish messiah (or Christ, in Greek) and the son of God.
AnswerThere were two main branches of Christianity at the time the four New Testament gospels were chosen - the Gnostics and those who are sometimes now referred to as 'Catholic-Orthodox' Christians, since this was long before the Great Schism of 1054. The Gnostics did not choose the four gospels we now know, preferring other gospels. Wihin Catholic-Orthodox Christianity, Irenaeus proposed that there be exactly four gospels, just as there are four corners to the earth and there are four winds, and that they were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Irenaeus was from the Greek-speaking east, but had become bishop of Lyons, so both East and West can lay claim to choosing the four gospels.
Jesus was crucified on it
The Western and Eastern Churches excommunicated each other.
The Gospels were written about Jesus of Nazareth (in Galilee), the founding-figure of Christianity, whose followers believed him to be the expected Jewish messiah (or Christ, in Greek) and the son of God.
Judaism, Islam and Christianity have significant connections to Jerusalem.
Jereusalem where Christ died and rose again (see Gospels).
He wrote one of the Gospels and the best version of the Sermon on the Mount is in his book.
Eastern Orthodox, although there is a significant catholic minority as well.