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What is the Essential Gospel?
By Andrew Wilson, September 2008
The search for the essential Gospel has a slightly Holy Grail feel to it. As you rummage through academic tomes about the ‘centre of Paul’s thought’, the ‘heart of the Gospel’ or the ‘essential kerygma’, you can almost hear Graham Chapman and Terry Jones behind you, banging coconuts together and urging you to join them on their quest. Scholars of various stripes seem to think that the essential Gospel is out there somewhere, and it’s only a matter of time before they find it – or, for the more self-confident, before they are recognized by their peers as having found it already: justification by faith, Jesus as Lord of the world, the kingdom, Christ crucified, the Word become flesh, the divinity of Jesus, the resurrection, and so on. Yet for some academics, there may be the nagging doubt that all this questing doesn’t seem to have got us very far. Perhaps the essential Gospel is as elusive as the Grail. >>
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