| Those who have read Father McKenzie s earlier Light on the Epistles willalready know how effective this reader s guide to the four Gospels is in really coming to grips with the content and meaning of the New Testament. For all too many Christians go through life With an appallingly superficial knowledge of these key documents of their faith. It is a regrettable situation and one which most of us have always meant to remedy oy taking "time out" to sit down and read the Gospels straight through. But the Gospels, for all their apparent simplicity, do not always make easy or readily understandable reading even in crisp, modern translations they pose a problem for the ordinary reader, no matter how interested and concerned. There are conflicts and ambiguities, textual oddities and problems of history, location and time. Some of the evangelists mention events and utterances of Jesus which the others omit. The exciting findings of modern biblical researcn compound the problem Scholars know more with each passing year and the knowledge gap grows wider. This unioue reader s guide is deaily suited to close that gap between the contemporary Christian and the Gospels, Written by the most distinguished Catholic scripture scholar of our day and designed to be used in conjunction with the New Testament. it provides lucid and expert commentary and explanation. |
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