This workbook accompanies Mark L. Strauss's Four Portraits, One Jesus.
Following the textbook's structure, it offers readings from the Gospels,
activities, and exercises designed to support the students' learning
experience and enhance their comprehension of what can be known from the
Gospels about the central defining subject of Christianity, Jesus of
Nazareth.
Four Portraits, One Jesus is a thorough yet accessible introduction to
the four biblical Gospels and their subject, the life and person of
Jesus. Like different artists rendering the same subject using different
styles and points of view, the Gospels paint four highly distinctive
portraits of the same remarkable Jesus. With clarity and insight, Mark
Strauss illuminates these four books, first addressing their nature,
origin, methods for study, and historical, religious, and cultural
backgrounds. He then moves on to closer study of each narrative and its
contribution to our understanding of Jesus, investigating things such as
plot, characters, and theme. Finally, he pulls it all together with a
detailed examination of what the Gospels teach about Jesus' ministry,
message, death, and resurrection, with excursions into the quest for the
historical Jesus and the historical reliability of the Gospels.