Monday, November 21, 2005

I was amused to find the following in a rather rabid conservative protestant American Christian blog:-
"Thomas is a gnostic gospel that holds fascination for many today. A new pocket edition is available. There are some scholars who would very much like to see gnosticism eclipse orthodox Christianity as the proper approach to God. Stevan Davies even opines "A fine introduction... a landmark effort to make Thomas a useful spiritual guide for the present day." A guide for the present day huh? Are the Synoptic Gospels and John's Gospel insufficient? Is Paul now irrelevent? The rise of neo-gnosticism signals yet again that "new age" religions are not interested in anything except the overthrow of Christianity."

This is my book of course, and Steve Davies was kind enough to write a nice blurb for it, even though his interest in these things is purely a question of history and ideas. The blog is written by Jim West, a contributor to the Crosstalk discussion list. An adjacent post discusses the possibility that homosexuality is the result of the actions of Satan.

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