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...search for Jesus the man is still alive, even among the form critics themselves. A leading example of the search is the work of French Theologian Oscar Cullmann, discussed in a roundup of current European theology in the Protestant quarterly Religion in Life. Cullmann maintains that just because the Gospels are the product of the post-Easter church is no reason why it is impossible to reach back beyond the crucifixion to the historical Jesus and "distinguish between the places where the Gospel writers obviously express their own view and the places where they report the words of Jesus himself...
...since 1946, when word went through the learned world that jars containing 13 leather-bound papyrus manuscripts-part of a 4th century Gnostic library-had been found in a sand-covered tomb in Upper Egypt. Laymen had been waiting for the book since last spring, when Swiss Theologian Oscar Cullmann, in a lecture at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, quoted some tantalizing excerpts from the "sayings of Jesus" contained in one of the volumes, which Cullmann compared in importance with the Dead Sea Scrolls (TIME, March...
...Comparable in importance to the Dead Sea Scrolls and of even greater significance to students of the New Testament." That is how visiting Swiss Theologian Oscar Cullmann (TIME, March 23) described the subject of his lecture at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary last week. Lutheran Cullmann was giving the public a first detailed and fascinating report on the so-called Gospel of St. Thomas, one of 44 Coptic manuscripts in leatherbound papyrus books found in 1946 in a tomb in upper Egypt some 60 miles from the city of Luxor...
...Cullmann cited two examples of Christ's sayings found both in the Gospel of St. Thomas and the church fathers: 1) "He who is near me is near the fire, and he who is far from me is far from the kingdom"; 2) "Split a piece of wood -I am there; lift the stone and you will find me there...
Unknown & Genuine. Will the newly found "Gospel" (scheduled to be published soon by Professor Henri-Charles Puech of the College de France, and colleagues) affect the New Testament? No, answers Theologian Cullmann: The collection "was rightly not included in the New Testament." His reason: It includes "obviously Gnostic material," and apparently was compiled by a Gnostic who arbitrarily put the collection under the authority of the Apostle Thomas.-* Says Cullmann: "Our four canonical Gospels are the only ones on which we can rely. Again and again we must marvel at the fact that from the large number of primitive Christian...