Sentences with phrase «original preaching of the gospel»

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But in the present time, altogether too many of us may know or think we know the original quite well, but yet do not know the language into which we are to translate; hence the gospel as preached is preached to ears that do not and can not hear, because they are ears that are attuned to a quite different set of conditions, patterns of thought, and ways of conceiving the universe.

A further consequence was inherent in Bultmann's original distinction between Jesus and Paul in terms of the shift of the aeons: «It could also be expressed as follows: Jesus preaches law and promise, Paul preaches the gospel in its relation to law.»

Subtly but profoundly these modified the initial ways of stating and apprehending the gospel; indeed we may well say that they gave a new depth to the understanding of Christ and his significance, and even a new content to the original gospel itself, insofar as Christ came to be interpreted in the light of the needs of men and women to whom he was being preached.

It is, however, in the Fourth Gospel that we return to the main line of development which runs through Mark from the original apostolic Preaching; though here the eschatological framework has been transformed into something widely different.