How to Read the Gospels: Answers to Common Questions

Today in the era of the quest for the historical Jesus Christians often find themselves at a loss when faced with questions about the origins and meaning of the Gospels. In this handy little book Father Harrington gives remarkably clear and complete responses to many of today's most commonly asked bible questions. He explains among other things who wrote the Gospels who Jesus is why there are four Gospels and why they are sometimes different from each other. In a straightforward and unassuming way Harrington offers a delightful instruction into the deeper realities of the Gospels in the light of faith confronting such intriguing questions as: Are the Gospels merely History books? Did Jesus really say these things? Daniel Harrington is a well-known expert on the bible a Jesuit priest and a professor at the Weston School of theology in Cambridge Massachusetts. His 15 other books include