gospel
has definitions from the fields of New Testament,religion,writing,music,fine art
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[ noun ] (New Testament,religion,writing) four books in the New Testament that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings
Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Nor is it necessary to look_for such evidence in the great urban_centers of our culture that are admittedly almost entirely secularized and so profoundly estranged from the conventional forms in which the gospel has been communicated . In the absence of a truly adequate conceptuality in which the gospel can be expressed , the unavoidable need to demythologize it makes use of whatever resources are at_hand - and this usually means one or another of the various forms of `` folk religion '' current in the situation . This is not to say that the only explanation of the present infatuation with Norman_Vincent_Peale 's `` cult of reassurance '' or the other types of a purely cultural Christianity is the ever-present need for a demythologized gospel . And yet this is exactly the risk we run when we assume , as we too often do , that we can continue to preach the gospel in a form that makes it seem incredible and irrelevant to cultured men . Until we translate this gospel into a language that enlightened men today can understand , we are depriving ourselves of the very resources on which the continued success of our witness most certainly depends . Related terms sacred_text Luke Matthew John Mark Word_of_God New_Testament |
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[ noun ] an unquestionable truth
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[ noun ] (religion) the body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a genre of a capella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul)
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[ noun ] a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance
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