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A Christological Catechism: New Testament Answers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joseph A. Fitzmyer presents 25 succinctly phrased and candidly answered questions about Jesus. His book covers issues such as the virgin birth, the infancy narratives, Jesus’ claim to be the messiah, the historical accuracy and significance of the resurrection and ascension texts, the place of Peter and the apostles, the importance of the Apocryphal gospels, and more. This book holds insights for...

The apocryphal gospels occasionally preserve some primitive tradition about Jesus, but by and large they are merely imaginative outgrowths of the canonical gospel tradition. a. “Apocrypha,” in a generic sense, are writings that grew out of the canonical Old and New Testaments. The name means “hidden,” and it was used in antiquity to designate those writings related to the two Testaments that were not considered to be