third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to [a multitude of witnesses]” (1 Cor. 15:3–5a). When we speak of the gospel in this sense, there is one and only one gospel. It is the good news that salvation is offered to undeserving people on the merits of Christ’s finished work at Calvary. When we spell the word with an upper-case G, however, it has a different meaning; it identifies a particular literary form. As distinct from the thirteen epistles of Paul, for example, there are