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Gospels

noun

1.

The four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings. Synonyms: evangel, Gospel.

Gospel

noun

1.

The four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings. Synonyms: evangel, Gospels.

2.

An unquestionable truth. Synonym: gospel truth.

3.

Folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella 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). Synonym: gospel singing.

4.

The written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group. Synonyms: church doctrine, creed, religious doctrine.

5.

A doctrine that is believed to be of great importance.

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Synoptic Gospels

Gospel According to John

Gospel According to Luke

Gospel According to Mark

Gospel According to Matthew

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"Gospels" Quotes from Famous Books

... wearing their own uniform, and in this guise to devote all his capacity to embarrassing the man who was the chosen president and the candidate of that party. Multitudes in the country had been wont to accept the editorials of the "Tribune" as sound political gospels, and the present disaffected attitude of the variable man who inspired those vehement writings was a national disaster. He created and led the party of peace Republicans. Peace Democracy was a legitimate political doctrine; but peace Republicanism was an illogical monstrosity. It lay, with the mortal ...

— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II • John T. Morse

... not to abandon the stage; he had urged the cause of Art; he had urged that her voice was her natural vocation; he had spoken of their love, and of the happiness they had found in each other—the conversation had drifted from an argument concerning the authenticity of the Gospels to a lake where they had spent a season five years ago. She saw again the reedy reaches and the steep mountain shores. They had been there in the month of September, and the leaves of the vine were drooping, and the grapes ready for ...

— Evelyn Innes • George Moore

... him, generally on sacred subjects. He respected Ivan Fyodorovitch, and stood in awe of his opinion, though he was a great philosopher himself; "self-taught," of course. But Alyosha had an irresistible attraction for him. During the last year the old man had taken to studying the Apocryphal Gospels, and constantly talked over his impressions with his young friend. He used to come and see him in the monastery and discussed for hours together with him and with the monks. So even if Alyosha were late at the prison, he ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... Uranie. It is an extremely careful but unsympathetic analysis of the Gospel accounts, emphasizing all the inconsistencies and interpreting them with a literalness that they can ill sustain. From this rationalistic view-point Holbach found the Gospels a tissue of absurdities and contradictions. His method, however, would not be followed by ...

— Baron d'Holbach • Max Pearson Cushing

... phrases had risen glittering, soap bubbles to dazzle men for a moment, and had shattered. And he felt a crazy desire to join the forlorn ones, to throw himself into inevitable defeat, to live his life as he saw it in spite of everything, to proclaim once more the falseness of the gospels under the cover of which greed and fear filled with more and yet more pain the already unbearable ...

— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos

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