Hi,
I just wanted to clarify a few things about this matter: these gospels, such as the gospels of Thomas, Judas, Mary Magdalene, etc. were never forbidden by the catholic church. this is a common misconception. There is also a lot to say about using this gospel as a means to learn more about Jesus' sayings, but it is not a coherent story, rather just a lot of quotations. This is probably a part of what exegetes call the Q-source, a collection of saying from Jesus, circulating in Palestine in the first century. And I must reemphasise that these exegetes act with no control from the church, and have had many trouble when this science came to rise. Now however, the church has accepted rational research into its canon, and never has there been a doubt that the 4 canonical gospels were the most widespread and earliest gospels in their form. (the letters of St. Paul precede these gospels). In all councils there was never an argument on which gospels to canonise and which gospels to neglect. The only discussions were about the other books in the New Testament. In fact the name apocryphon means "hidden" meaning these gospels were used in small circles of "enlightened&qu...
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Posted on February 20, 2008
Hi, I just wanted to clarify a few things about this matter: these gospels, such as the gospels of Thomas, Judas, Mary Magdalene, etc. were never forbidden by the catholic church. this is a common misconception. There is also a lot to say about using this gospel as a means to learn more about Jesus' sayings, but it is not a coherent story, rather just a lot of quotations. This is probably a part of what exegetes call the Q-source, a collection of saying from Jesus, circulating in Palestine in the first century. And I must reemphasise that these exegetes act with no control from the church, and have had many trouble when this science came to rise. Now however, the church has accepted rational research into its canon, and never has there been a doubt that the 4 canonical gospels were the most widespread and earliest gospels in their form. (the letters of St. Paul precede these gospels). In all councils there was never an argument on which gospels to canonise and which gospels to neglect. The only discussions were about the other books in the New Testament. In fact the name apocryphon means "hidden" meaning these gospels were used in small circles of "enlightened&qu...