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One unfortunate consequence of the bitter fundamentalist-modernist controversy which raged in the early twenties has been the strongly negative attitude toward biblical criticism assumed by some of the successors to the fundamentalists of the 1920s. Such people, according to Professor Ladd, insist that the critical method is basically hostile to the evangelical faith, and they have continued to...

we not have a single, all-comprehensive biography of Jesus’ words and deeds? Do our Gospels use sources? Are they the private recollections of four separate witnesses (hardly possible, since the author of Luke does not claim to be an eyewitness), or do they represent four collections of tradition about Jesus? What is the interrelationship between the Gospels? Why are the first three Gospels similar to each other and the Fourth Gospel very different, both in style, substance, and content? Is it because
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