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good news so loud it built cathedrals, freed slaves, and out-sang every empire that tried to silence it
means A teaching or message accepted as absolutely true, especially the Christian message of salvation or the four New Testament accounts of Jesus' life; informally, anything taken as the unquestionable truth.
from From Old English 'gōdspel,' literally 'good news' — 'gōd' (good) plus 'spel' (story, tidings, message; the same 'spel' that survives in 'spell'). It was a careful translation of the Greek 'euangelion,' 'good message,' which also gives us 'evangelist.' One wrinkle: early on, some confused 'gōd' (good) with 'god,' so 'gōdspel' could read as 'God's story' — a happy ambiguity for a word about divine news, though the original sense was plainly 'good news.'
- Literal meaning
- Old English godspell means good news
- Four authors
- Matthew, Mark, Luke and John disagree on details
- Mark's first
- Oldest gospel, written around 70 AD
- Music genre
- Birthed soul, then rock, then everything
- Truth idiom
- Gospel truth means absolutely undeniable
aretha franklin — queen of soul, 18 grammy awards, defined gospel music from 1950s-2010s
mahalia jackson — gospel legend who sang at mlk's 1963 march on washington, defined genre in 1940s-60s
thomas dorsey — father of gospel music, composed 'precious lord take my hand', created the genre in 1920s-30s