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Albertina Walker
Albertina Walker1929– Gospel singer Albertina Walker has been a force in traditional gospel music for so long that she is affectionately known as the "Queen of Gospel." The deeply religious singer has spent most of her life praising God with her music, first as a founder and member of the Caravans... Read more |
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gospel music
gospel music American religious musical form that owes much of its origin to the Christian conversion of West Africans enslaved in the American South. Gospel music partly evolved from the songs slaves sang on plantations, notably work songs, and from the Protestant hymns they sang in church.... Read more |
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James Cleveland
James Cleveland Singer, songwriter, pianist For the Record… Compositions Selected discography Sources Variously hailed as the King of Gospel Music and the Crown Prince of Gospel, the Reverend James Cleveland has combined his talents as preacher, composer, singer, producer, and philanthropist... Read more |
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Immanuel
Immanuel or Emmanuel [Heb.,=God with us], in the Book of Isaiah, name given to the child who would be a sign to Judah of her deliverance. In the Gospel of St. Matthew it is given as a name of Jesus.... Read more |
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Gospel according to Saint John
Gospel according to Saint John fourth book of the New Testament. This account of Jesus' life is clearly set off from the other three Gospels (see Synoptic Gospels ), although it is probable that John knew and used both Mark and Luke as sources. The Gospel opens with a prologue in which Jesus is... Read more |
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Gospel of Thomas
Gospel of Thomas a collection of sayings, composed originally in Greek, attributed to the "living" (i.e., resurrected) Jesus. Some of the sayings were previously known from papyri discovered at Oxyrhynchus and published in the late 19th cent. The sayings are similar to those of Jesus in the... Read more |
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Gospel
Gospel [M.E.,=good news; evangel from Gr.,= good news], a written account of the life of Jesus. Though the Gospels of the New Testament are all anonymous, since the 2d cent. they have been named Matthew , Mark , Luke , and John . The first three are called Synoptic Gospels because they... Read more |
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Jesus
Jesus or Jesus Christ , 1st-century Jewish teacher and prophet in whom Christians have traditionally seen the Messiah [Heb.,=annointed one, whence Christ from the Greek] and whom they have characterized as Son of God and as Word or Wisdom of God incarnate. Muslims acknowledge him as a... Read more |
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Nicodemus
Nicodemus , in the Gospel of St. John, member of the Sanhedrin sympathetic to Jesus. He helped Joseph of Arimathea to bury him. Among the New Testament Apocrypha is a Gospel of Nicodemus.... Read more |
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Gospel according to Mark
Gospel according to Mark 2d book of the New Testament. The shortest of the four Gospels and probably the earliest, it is usually thought to have been composed shortly before the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in AD 70. Tradition claims St. Mark as the author and St. Peter as the eyewitness... Read more |
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The risen Lord is the heart of the gospel [Soli Deo Gloria: A Daily Walk...
...the story of the gospel of God, one can soon discover...the account of how God met the children...the way in which God has extended this...our Messiah, the Redeemer, sent by God, the...Paul's Trinitarian ... |
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What Language Shall I Borrow? God-Talk in Worship: A Male Response to...
...at Candler School of Theology at Emory, makes an important...for women. The Word of God means nothing unless...Chopp, the heart of the gospel message coincides with feminism, since feminist theology and consciousness emerge...is at the heart of the ... |
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The God of Israel and Christian Theology
...Israel and Christian Theology. By R. Kendall...carnal" Israel in God's design. Soulen...more faithful to the God whom they worship...understanding how God is actively engaged...Consummator" and "Redeemer." Soulen's starting...to interpret ... |
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Shorter reviews -- God as Trinity: Relationality and Temporality in Divine...
...PETERS, professor of theology at Pacific Lutheran...the relationship of God's eternity to the...we understand the God of the gospel, the one creator...the relationship of God's eternity to the...God as creator, ... |
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Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin. By Randall C. Zachman.(Book...
...and Word in the Theology of John Calvin...those instituted by God and accompanied by God's word. They include images of God the Creator, such...images of God the Redeemer consist of manifestations...tabernacle, ark, ... |
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A king in partnership with the least ones.(REFLECTION)(God and Israel)
...much traditional theology that has represented...called to glorify God as their creator, redeemer and king above all...peoples belong to God, and this reality...our notions about God is a truth that we hear in today's ... |
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The Baptism of Our Lord: January 7, 2007.(Preaching Helps)(Critical essay)
...that God is both redeemer and creator. This...the scriptures and theology of Israel. The...that it was the God of their ancestors...understand that the God who had rescued them was the God of creation and...creation than ... |
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PAUL CONFRONTS PAGANISM IN THE CHURCH: A CASE STUDY OF FIRST CORINTHIANS 15:45
...metanarrative" of the gospel's world view...importance in the recent theologies of Paul,5 and...part of Paul's theology and apologetics...reaching perspective on God's purposes for...theology: * theology = ... |
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Redeemer becoming 'life coach'
...The Alternative Gospel of the American Church...professor of systematic theology and apologetics at...that we need a "Redeemer" - once at the center...longer ask "what does God require of me," but rather, "what can God do for me?" ... |
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Evangelicals and the Mother of God.
...mediator between God and man. No Protestant...Incarnate Word and Redeemer ... the Church...evangelicals, that is, gospel people and Bible...whole counsel of God. When it comes to...named a "herald" of God's good news. We...a proper biblical ... |