4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
The apostle John — traditionally identified as the author of the Fourth Gospel, three epistles, and Revelation — whose Gospel differs fundamentally from the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) by presenting Jesus as the eternal Logos (Word) who became flesh.
The author of the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles — who wrote the most literary and historically conscious of the Gospels, addressed to a Gentile audience, and whose parable of the Prodigal Son is the most psychologically profound of all Gospel narratives.
The author of the Gospel of Mark — the earliest of the four canonical Gospels (~65–70 CE) — whose urgent, compressed narrative (characteristic Greek word 'immediately') presents Jesus's ministry as a sequence of dramatic actions leading to the cross.
The apostle Matthew — traditionally identified as a tax collector who became a disciple of Jesus and whose Gospel (written for a Jewish Christian audience) presents Jesus as the fulfillment of Hebrew prophecy and the teacher of the new law in the Sermon on the Mount.