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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Gospel of Thomas"”.
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Know Yourself and You Will Be Known: The Gospel of Thomas and Middle Platonism
<p>The <em>Gospel of Thomas</em> is a collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus and is primarily composed of rhetorical statements that were used to preserve the teachings of itinerant Greek philosophers. These collections were used to persuade individuals to join the philosophical schools …
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Finding God in the urban landscape : a temple for gnosis in upper Manhattan
… are problematic terms. With the discovery of a library of so called heretical Gnostic texts in 1945, theologians, historians, and believers the world over have been exposed to Christian texts that call into question the liturgical lineage of the "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" and …
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The parables of Jesus as symbols of social transformation in a critical view of food insecurity systems for vulnerable households in urban townships
The aim of this study is to determine the use of the parables of the historical Jesus as transformative interpretive instruments of food shortage in urban townships. We will give much attention on the 12 theses critical reading of the parables espoused by Van Eck. In order to reach stated …