These manuscripts, now known as the Nag Hammadi Library, contained a complete manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas. A fragment of this gospel, written in Greek, had been found earlier at Oxyrynchos ...
The early church rejected the Gospel of Thomas, among other books, for several reasons. First, it was clear to the early church that it was likely a forgery, and not written by the Apostle Thomas.
The gospel opens as Jesus invites people to see.... The Gospel of Thomas also suggests that Jesus is aware of, and criticizing the views of the Kingdom of God as a time or a place that appear in ...
See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the ...
Saint Thomas the Apostle is commemorated by the Church on October 6. The events commemorated on the Sunday of Thomas are recorded in the Gospel of Saint John 20:19-29. Following the crucifixion and ...
The Gospel of Luke is the first volume of Luke-Acts, which was composed by "Luke the beloved physician," a traveling companion of St. Paul (Col 4:14). The Gentile St. Luke wrote his work for ...
To help with this quandary, Thomas Griffin, a religion teacher at a Long Island, New York, Catholic high school and Register ...
The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...
For us all, St. Francis shows us by his acceptance of the stigmata that being a Christian involves pain, sometimes of the ...
Veteran South African gospel artist Solomon Molokoane, popularly known as Solly Moholo, has died at the age of 65, his ...
Thomas Becket, killed in Canterbury in 1170, was attached to a "little book", which may now have been found in Cambridge.