Word: gospels
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...Democrats for getting needlessly preoccupied with the 2008 election. The media has so saturated our society with the latest gossip on what’s happening on the campaign trail, it’s no wonder people have turned into cyborgs, mindlessly going into New Hampshire to spread the gospel of Obama, Hillary, or this Dodd fellow...
...Elaine Pagels is about the nearest thing there is to a superstar in the realm of Christian history scholarship. It is largely through her work that many understand the early non-Orthodox Christianity that she at one point dubbed (and later un-dubbed, finding the term imprecise) the Gnostic Gospels. She breaks new ground with the debut of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, her collaboration with Harvard Divinity scholar Karen King about the second-century "Gospel of Judas" that was made public last year...
...Before these discoveries, we knew little about Christians who opposed martyrdom - or opposed encouraging it - because the people who challenged the dominant view were ridiculed as cowards and heretics, and their writings didn't survive. The Gospel of Judas shows what intense and painful arguments martyrdom caused among Christians...
...think that the writer of the Gospel of Judas was familiar with the idea the Jesus died for our sins...
...concern was about leaders who encouraged martyrdom, and in this gospel, the other apostles stand in for these leaders, and he criticizes them harshly. I don't want to sound like I'm advocating the Gospel of Judas. What I love, is that this sort of document shows you the other side of the moon, the voices of the pe ople who were regarded as not articulating what became the official doctrine of the Church - a more dense, more detailed, more human picture of the early Christian movement than we've ever had available before...