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The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, through a distinctive evangelical and critical approach, Michael Bird explores the historical development of the four canonical Gospels. He shows how the memories and faith of the earliest believers formed the Gospel accounts of Jesus that got written and, in turn, how these accounts further shaped the early church. Bird’s study clarifies the often confusing debates over the...

have understood themselves quite consciously as a “kingdom” movement of sorts, for whom the cross became a central symbol for what the kingdom stood for. Paul’s few scattered reference to “kingdom” suggests that it was a virtual abbreviation for the work that he was doing (Rom 14:17; 1 Cor 4:20; Col 1:13; 4:11), something still to be entered into or inherited in the future (1 Cor 6:9–10; 15:24, 50; Gal 5:21; 1 Thess 2:12; 2 Thess 1:5), and something that was also christologically constituted so that
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