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   Gos·pel

   /ˈɡäsp(ə)l/

   

   noun

   • 1. the teaching or revelation of Christ: "it is the Church's mission to preach the gospel" Similar Christian teachingChrist's teachingthe life of Christthe word of Godthe good newsChristian doctrinethe New Testamentthe writings of the evangelists
   • ▪ a thing that is absolutely true: "they say it's sold out, but don't take that as gospel" Similar the truththe whole truththe naked truthgospel truthGod's truththe honest truthfactactual factwhat actually/really happenedrealityactualityfactualitythe casesoveritya certaintyOpposite a lie
   • ▪ a set of principles or beliefs: "the new economics unit has produced what it reckons to be the approved gospel" Similar doctrinedogmateachingprincipleethiccreedcredotheorythesisideologyideaidealpositionbelieftenetcanonconvictionpersuasionopinion
   • 2. the record of Jesus' life and teaching in the first four books of the New Testament.
   • ▪ each of the first four books of the New Testament.
   • ▪ a portion from one of the Gospels read at a church service.
   • 3. a fervent style of black American evangelical religious singing, developed from spirituals sung in Southern Baptist and Pentecostal Churches: "gospel singers"

   Word Origin Old Englishgōdspel, from gōd ‘good’ + spel ‘news, a story’ (see spell2), translating ecclesiastical Latin bona annuntiatio or bonus nuntius, used to gloss ecclesiastical Latin evangelium, from Greek euangelion ‘good news’ (see evangel); after the vowel was shortened in Old English, the first syllable was mistaken for god ‘God’.

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