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Rich, lucid, cogent. Very well done indeed. Thank you.
Grace and peace.
People who seek out the silenced voices of the early Christian community are not heretics but people acting squarely in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation says Bellamy, the Atlanta Unity Church pastor.
"We don't like people telling us what to believe or what to read, so as soon as these texts were discovered and translated, people chose to read them," she says. "That is the Protestant way."
Luther took books out. The modern Protestant adds new books.
Great Post!
Thanks, TCB and Francis.
The Gnostic gospels are not lost. I read a couple back when I was thi, never mind how old I was. I checked them out of the public library and read them.
The Gnostic gospels are not lost. They are just uninteresting.
Interesting point to note when discussing the Gnostic Gospels (and pretty much every other apocryphal gospel): They were all written much later than the canonicals and thus must be considered significantly detached from the historical moment in question.
If the AJC was looking for controversy, they could have just looked at the last canonical Gospel: Some biblical scholars (likely the more theologically skeptical ones, I'm guessing) contend that there's evidence of John's Gospel having a gnostic element that was "corrected" by some clever editing.
Anyway, great post with an incisive point, Paul.
St. John the Divine a Gnostic? I'd say we could call those who hold such a view "theological skeptics."
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