scholarly journals A Study on the Historical‐Biblical‐Dogmatical Foundation of the Fourfold Gospel Hermeneutics —Based on the John Wesley’s Evangelical Experience of the Fourfold Gospel and the Trinitarian Understanding of the Fourfold Gospel

2019 ◽  
Vol null (57) ◽  
pp. 301-350
Author(s):  
최인식
Keyword(s):  
Fourfold Gospel

The Origins of Scholarship on the Fourfold Gospel

2019 ◽  
pp. 56-95
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Information Visualization ◽  
Textual Organization ◽  
Fourfold Gospel

In his Letter to Carpianus Eusebius refers to an earlier author named Ammonius of Alexandria who, he says, left to posterity the Diatessaron-Gospel. This chapter first identifies the Ammonius in question and proposes that he was a philosopher well-known for his philological scholarship. It also elucidates the title and significance of his work through a comparison with Origen’s Hexapla. The second half of the chapter turns to Eusebius’ adaptation of Ammonius’ composition and argues that it provided him with the ‘starting points’ that he reworked to produce his marginal apparatus. Eusebius’ experimentations with information visualization and textual organization in his Chronicle and Pinax for the Psalms provided him with the insights he needed to accomplish this reworking. Finally, this chapter argues that the ten Canon Tables possessed cosmological resonances in the light of Eusebius’ comments elsewhere about the theology of numbers and creation.

Characteristics of the Diatessaron’s Sequence

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-58
Author(s):  
James W. Barker
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Fourfold Gospel ◽  
Previous Scholarship

This chapter elucidates the overarching structure of Tatian’s Diatessaron. The four separate Gospels differ among themselves in countless ways. To narrate Jesus’s ministry, Tatian incorporated all the Jewish festivals from the Gospel of John, but he rearranged the order of the feasts and the events surrounding them. Tatian’s narrative chronology has gone unrecognized in previous scholarship, because Ephrem’s commentary—albeit a key witness to the Diatessaron—suppressed most of the references to Jewish feasts. Besides the Diatessaron’s innovative chronology, Tatian often grouped characters and episodes thematically when rearranging the contents of the fourfold gospel. The Arabic harmony is the single best witness to the Diatessaron’s narrative sequence.

scholarly journals The Fourfold Gospel, Section IV., The Law of the New Kingdom

1916 ◽  
Vol 9 (36) ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
N. J. D. White ◽  
Edwin A. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
New Kingdom ◽  
The Law ◽  
Fourfold Gospel

Reading the Fourfold Gospel From the Two Creation Stories in Genesis: A Creation Theological Understanding of the Fourfold Gospel for Holistic Mission

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Joel Suh-Tae Yun
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Missio Dei ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Divine Healing ◽  
Holistic Mission ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Fourfold Gospel ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Creation Stories

The Fourfold Gospel of regeneration, sanctification, divine healing, and the Second Coming was introduced to Korea in the early 20th century and played a crucial role in developing the Korea Holiness Churches. It seems, however, that the previous understanding of the Fourfold Gospel has some limitations in helping Christians to participate in missio Dei. Because missiological hermeneutics of the Fourfold Gospel has focused mainly on the theology of redemption, it has frequently led to a narrow understanding of missio Dei. Through the reading of the two creation stories in Genesis, we can recognize that God’s creative works already have redemptive meanings and that His redemptive works already have creative/creational meanings. In this sense, it is also possible to see the Fourfold Gospel from a creation theological perspective. This understanding may positively motivate Christians to participate in missio Dei to restore and complete God’s creation as his vicegerents and stewards.

scholarly journals Ammonius of Alexandria, Eusebius of Caesarea and the Origins of Gospels Scholarship

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Reference System ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Textual Scholarship ◽  
Literary Integrity ◽  
Fourfold Gospel ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Eusebius Of Caesarea ◽  
Cross Reference

In the early third and fourth centuries respectively, Ammonius of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea engaged in cutting-edge research on the relationships among the four canonical gospels. Indeed, these two figures stand at the head of the entire tradition of comparative literary analysis of the gospels. This article provides a more precise account of their contributions, as well as the relationship between the two figures. It argues that Ammonius, who was likely the teacher of Origen, composed the first gospel synopsis by placing similar passages in parallel columns. He gave this work the title Diatessaron-Gospel, referring thereby to the four columns in which his text was laid out. This pioneering piece of scholarship drew upon a long tradition of Alexandrian textual scholarship and likely served as the inspiration for Origen's more famous Hexapla. A little over a century later, Eusebius of Caesarea picked up where Ammonius left off and attempted to accomplish the same goal, albeit using a different and improved method. Using the textual parallels presented in the Diatessaron-Gospel as his ‘raw data’, Eusebius converted these textual units into numbers which he then collated in ten tables, or ‘canons’, standing at the beginning of a gospel book. The resulting cross-reference system, consisting of the Canon Tables as well as sectional enumeration throughout each gospel, allowed the user to find parallels between the gospels, but in such a way that the literary integrity of each of the four was preserved. Moreover, Eusebius also exploited the potential of his invention by including theologically suggestive cross-references, thereby subtly guiding the reader of the fourfold gospel to what might be called a canonical reading of the four.

Book review: The Fourfold Gospel Commentary

Theology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 111 (861) ◽  
pp. 192-193
Author(s):  
Robin Griffith-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Fourfold Gospel
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