A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- 'All is vanity, saith the preacher'
- A bruised reed He shall not break
- A curse on Herod
- A handful of dust
- A hymn to Christ
- A Laodicean
- A little East of Jordan
- A man who had fallen among thieves
- A small fig tree
- A song for Simeon
- A word made flesh is seldom
- Aaron
- Aaron's Rod
- Abel's Blood
- Abraham
- Abraham to kill him
- Absalom
- Absalom and Achitophel
- Absalom, Absalom!
- According to the Mighty Working
- Adam's curse
- Adam's dream
- Advent (Used in the title of a number of poems)
- After the Fall
- After this, the judgement
- Agape
- All my sons
- Altar, The
- And death shall have no dominion
- And he answered them nothing
- And there was a great calm
- Angry Samson
- Annunciation, The
- Anti-Christ, or the Reunion of Christendom
- Armageddon
- As Adam early in the morning
- Ascension
- Ascension Day 1964
- Ascension-day
- At Calvary near the Ancre
- At the manger Mary sings
- Babel
- Babel Tower
- Back to Methuselah
- Ballad of the Bread Man
- Battle of Gibeon, The
- Beauty of Job's daughters, The
- Bedridden peasant to the unknown God, The
- Being breadlike
- Belshazzar had a letter
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: A word made flesh is seldom
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PoemDefinition
At the start of John's gospel, Jesus is referred to as the Word (of God) who came to humankind in human form (flesh)Cultural References
Big ideas: Word of GodOne of the three closest disciples to Christ. Traditionally, John is thought to have written the Fourth Gospel, the three Epistles of John (1, 2, & 3 John) and the Book of Revelation.
Gospel - Literally 'good news' - used of the message preached by Jesus recorded in the New Testament.
1. The central message of the Christian faith
2. Title given to the four New Testament books which describe the life of Jesus Christ
The name given to the man believed by Christians to be the Son of God. Also given the title Christ, meaning 'anointed one' or Messiah. His life is recorded most fully in the Four Gospels.
1. Title used for Jesus in the opening passage of John's Gospel.
2. The Bible is also called the Word of God.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
Physical rather than spiritual being.
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