The Gospel
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
also in the atlas: the Gospel the object
the Gospel · the gospel · the law of Christ
in the texts
Stromata
The Christian teaching said not to conflict with, but to agree with, the divine law.
The law does not, then, fight with the Gospel, but agrees with it.
The Rights of War and Peace
Christ's teaching, examined at length for whether it forbids war or capital punishment beyond the law of nature.
It may readily be admitted, that nothing inconsistent with natural justice is enjoined in the gospel, yet it can never be allowed, that the laws of Christ do not impose duties upon us, above those required by the law of nature.
It must however be admitted that, before the Gospel dispensation permission or impunity was granted to certain acts and dispositions, which it would neither be necessary nor proper to examine at present, upon which Christ did not allow his followers to act.
Adversus Marcionem
The Christian proclamation, argued to belong to the same Creator God as the law and the prophets.
If for this reason, that he might defend the greater splendour of the new testament, which abides in glory, than of the old, which had to be made void, this too suits my faith, which prefers the gospel to the law;
So here too, when he says, For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes, to Jew and Greek, because the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith — without doubt he reckons both gospel and salvation to a just God, not to a good one, so to speak, according to the heretic's distinction — transferring from the faith of the law …