Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way

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Oxford University Press, USA, 5 déc. 2002 - 272 pages
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This incisive critique thoroughly and convincingly debunks the claims that recently discovered texts such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and even the Dead Sea Scrolls undermine the historical validity of the New Testament.Jenkins places the recent controversies surrounding the hidden gospels in a broad historical context and argues that, far from being revolutionary, such attempts to find an alternative Christianity date back at least to the Enlightenment. By employing the appropriate scholarly and historical methodologies, he demonstrates that the texts purported to represent pristine Christianity were in fact composed long after the canonical gospels found in the Bible. Produced by obscure heretical movements, these texts have attracted much media attention chiefly because they seem to support radical, feminist, and post-modern positions in the modern church. Indeed, Jenkins shows how best-selling books on the "hidden gospels" have been taken up by an uncritical, drama-hungry media as the basis for a social movement that could have powerful effects on the faith and practice of contemporary Christianity.
 

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Hiding and Seeking
3
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
27
The First Gospels? Q and Thomas
54
Gospel Truth
82
Hiding Jesus The Church and the Heretics
107
Daughters of Sophia
124
Into the Mainstream
148
The Gospels in the Media
178
The Next New Gospel
205
Notes
217
Index
249
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Page 58 - Jonah the prophet : for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale ; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 103 - Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
Page 70 - If they say to you, 'Where did you come from?', say to them, 'We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord and established [itself] and became manifest through their image.' If they say to you, 'Is it you?' say, 'We are its children, and we are the elect of the living father.
Page 127 - A cup of milk was offered to me: and I drank it in the sweetness of the delight of the Lord. The Son is the cup, and He who was milked is the Father: And the Holy Spirit milked Him...
Page 122 - For as this broken Bread was scattered upon the mountains fin the act of sowing], and being brought together became one, so let Thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth * into Thy kingdom ; for Thine is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ for ever and ever.
Page 60 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
Page 81 - Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Page 79 - Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

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Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of many books, including Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Social Crisis, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History, and The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

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