A Key to the Narrative of the Four Gospels
Overview
At the height of historical critical study of Scripture in the nineteenth century, John Pilkington Norris wrote this timely work to address this influential movement which continues to significantly impact biblical studies today. As Norris writes in the preface, “Everything purporting to be a fact in the world’s history is being thus tested … The Gospel narratives cannot escape this kind of criticism. The purpose of the following pages is to help our younger students to realize to themselves the narrative of these four Gospels: to show that they are not contradictory but supplemental to each other. It may not be possible to weave into one consistent chronicle all their anecdotes of our blessed Lord’s ministry. But it may be possible so far to succeed in reconstructing the original order of events, as to satisfy any candid mind that their discrepancies are only such as might naturally be expected in four independent portraitures; and to quicken the reader’s consciousness of the reality of the divine original. This last is the all-important thing.”
- Title: A Key to the Narrative of the Four Gospels
- Author: John Pilkington Norris
- Publisher: Rivingtons
- Print Publication Date: 1869
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Gospels › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Resource ID: LLS:GSPLSNORRIS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:46:12Z