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13 - The Gospels and Doctrine

from Part III - The Afterlife of the Gospels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2021

By
Frances Young
Edited by
Stephen C. Barton  and
Todd Brewer
Stephen C. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

Frances Young explores the changing relationship in the history of the early church between the gospel texts and the determination of true doctrine. She shows that, even when the four gospels had been accepted as canonical, what shaped doctrine most was the overarching sense of what scripture as a whole was about, epitomized in the ’Rule of Faith’ and the creeds.

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reception historyearly Christianitytheologydoctrinerule of faithhermeneuticsgospels
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 261 - 280
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Burton-Christie, Douglas, The Word in the Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)Google Scholar
Ehrman, Bart, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)Google Scholar
Grant, Robert M., The Earliest Lives of Jesus (London: SPCK, 1961)Google Scholar
Grillmeier, Aloys, Christ in Christian Tradition (London: Mowbrays, 1975)Google Scholar
Kelly, J. N. D., Early Christian Creeds, 3rd ed. (London: Longman, 1972)Google Scholar
Paget, James Carleton, and Schaper, Joachim, eds., The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. I (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013)Google Scholar
Parker, David C., The Living Text of the Gospels (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997)Google Scholar
Simonetti, Manlio, Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church (Edinburgh: T&T. Clark, 1994)Google Scholar
Young, Frances, The Making of the Creeds (London: SCM Press, 1991)Google Scholar
Young, Frances, Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997)Google Scholar
Young, Frances, Ways of Reading Scripture: Collected Papers, WUNT 369 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018)Google Scholar

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