WHAT ARE THE GOSPELS & GENRE, FORMS, and STRUCTURE
WHAT ARE THE GOSPELS & GENRE, FORMS, and STRUCTURE
WHAT ARE THE GOSPELS & GENRE, FORMS, and STRUCTURE
GOSPELS?
Prepared by: Sir Axiel M. Engracial
I can define the Gospel’s genre, form, and
structure.
I can explain the stages of formation in the
New Testament.
LESSON
TARGETS
INTRODUCTION
“EXPERIENCE COMES
FIRST BEFORE ANY
COURSE OF ACTION OR
PRACTICE”
Stages of the Formation of
the New Testament
Let us try to understand how the New Testament was formed by
following the following stages:
GOSPELS?
WHAT ARE THE GOSPELS?
Mark tells the story in which Jesus before the night he dies was on the
ground begging God; “If this all could pass, but I will do what you want." In
Mark's Gospel Jesus is on the ground and is not in control of the situation
while in John's gospel whole cohort of the Jerusalem forces to come out
to capture Jesus but ended up with their faces on the ground. And Jesus
says "Let my disciples go.” Which portrays a Jesus who was not on the
ground and who was in control of the situation.
“God, I’m scared, what
if this doesn’t work?”
But there are some things that you cannot be
sure of,
You must take a chance. If you wait for perfect
weather, you will never plant your seeds. If you
are afraid that every cloud will bring rain, you
will never harvest your crops.
“God, I’m scared, what You don’t know where the wind blows. And you
if this doesn’t work?” don’t know how a baby grows in its mothers
womb. In the same way, you don’t know what
God will do - and he makes everything happen.
ECCLESIASTES 11:4-5
ANY QUESTIONS OR
CLARIFICATIONS?
THANK YOU AND
GOD BLESS Y’ALL!
RE2: NEW TESTAMENT
GOSPELS
GENRE, FORM,
AND STRUCTURE
3. Gospels are not four versions that are radically different about the
same event.
4. Neither are they versions that are similar in all and therefore are
simply repetitions that can be interchangeable.
5. Gospels are not direct or live and immediate records of the facts at
the moment they happened. They are stories told from generation to
generation through words of mouth which we call oral tradition which
later on put into writings.
B. Gospel as Form
1. Introduction or exposition
2. Rising action or complication
3. Climax or crises
4. Falling action
5. Catastrophe
6. Conclusion
C. Gospel Structure
The Gospels also include oral forms that are categorized into
narrative type and discourse type. The narrative type includes
miracle stories, pronouncement stories, and stories about Jesus
while the discourse type includes parables and sayings or
aphorisms.