gospel
noun
[ ˈɡɒsp(ə)l ]
• the teaching or revelation of Christ.
• "it is the Church's mission to preach the gospel"
Similar:
Christian teaching,
Christ's teaching,
the life of Christ,
the word of God,
the good news,
Christian doctrine,
the New Testament,
• the record of Christ's life and teaching in the first four books of the New Testament.
• a fervent style of black American evangelical religious singing, developed from spirituals sung in Southern Baptist and Pentecostal Churches.
Origin:
Old English gōdspel, 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’.
