Fourfold Gospel – A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus

Francis Watson (PhD, University of Oxford) is Research Chair in Biblical Interpretation at Durham University in Durham, England. He previously taught at the University of Aberdeen and at King's College London. Among his numerous works are the critically acclaimed Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith; Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective; and Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective.

• ContentsProlegomena: The Making of a Fourfold GospelMore Than Four?Fewer Than Four?Why "Gospel"?Why the Evangelists' Names?Why These Four?Part 1: Perspectives1. The First Gospel: Jesus the JewThe Messiah's Double OriginGenealogy as NarrativeThe Sacred Story and Its ShadowThe Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah2. The Second Gospel: Preparing the WayThe Four Faces of the GospelThe Voice in the DesertThe Inclusive GospelAn End and a Beginning3. The Third Gospel: MagnificatHow Luke Became LukeReassuring TheophilusReading in Parallel4. The Fourth Gospel: Seeing GodThree plus OneThe Johannine EagleIn the BeginningPart 2: Convergences5. Four Gospels, One BookThe Evangelist: Portrait and ArtistPrefatory to a GospelOrder out of ChaosParallels and Numbers6. The City and the GardenAcclamationReading the EventA Man of Sorrows7. Christus VictorThe Death of the MessiahAtonementPatternLifeAftermath8. The Truth of the GospelThe Eucharistic MilieuEvangelical ApologeticsForm and ContentThe One WordIndexes