In this sense, we might simply include
the apostolic kerygma in the expression «the word of Christ.»
In any case, I have taken a narrative from the Gospels, rather than
the apostolic kerygma, as my illustration of how faith is generated mainly because the Gospels pose the problem of historical veracity much more acutely.
And the Protestant Christian knows that the New Testament originated in
the apostolic kerygma of the living apostolic Church and therefore is and remains her book.
Not exact matches
In this survey of the
apostolic Preaching and its developments two facts have come into view: first, that within the New Testament there is an immense range of variety in the interpretation that is given to the
kerygma; and, secondly, that in all such interpretation the essential elements of the original
kerygma are steadily kept in view.
We have now to ask how far this form of
kerygma is distinctively Pauline, and how far it provides valid evidence for the
apostolic Preaching in general.
In studying the Book of Acts, we find an identifiable
apostolic «
kerygma» - the apostles» core proclamation of the message of Jesus presented to Jews and Gentiles.