THEO1088 Lecture 23: MARCH17_THEO100206_WALTON
Document Summary
Documentary: the lost gospels (bbc documentary - on youtube) Relationship to bauer thesis: the lost gospels discarded at early times, but the narrator believes that without the lost txts, we cant understand the origins of the early church and christianity. People began to rise to power, began to tell people that only very specific books would be counted as scripture (the 27 we have today in. Nt: cut down all of the other books that had previously be considered christian (relate to bauer) December 1945: discover forced scholars to rethink early christianity at. Why did the leaders of the early church declare the texts from nag hammadi as heresy: ex: gospel of thomas (discovered in its entirety) Bauer: also widely read because many copies have been found on high quality papyrus - highly valued, thomas = hidden - the gospel is supposed to be deliberately obscure - riddles to be decoded.