Doubting ThomasHarvard University Press, 2007 M09 30 - 288 páginas About the disciple known as Doubting Thomas, everyone knows at least this much: he stuck his finger into the risen Jesus’ wounds. Or did he? A fresh look at the Gospel of John reveals how little we may really understand about this most perplexing of biblical figures, and how much we might learn from the strange twists and turns Thomas’s story has taken over time. |
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... acts of close interpretation, one devoted to John's account, the other to Caravaggio's painting of Doubting Thomas; in between, considerations of space, propriety, balance, and ignorance have all compelled a more exploratory approach ...
... acts of close interpretation , one devoted to John's account , the other to Caravaggio's painting of Doubting Thomas ; in between , consider- ations of space , propriety , balance , and ignorance have all compelled a more exploratory ...
... Acts of Thomas The Acts of Thomas ( E 439-511 ; S - W 2.322-411 ) Apocalypse The Apocalypse of Thomas ( E 645-51 ; S - W 2.748-52 ) = Contender = The Book of Thomas the Contender ( S - W 1.232-47 under the title The Book of Thomas , not ...
... act of direct and immediate vision ; that under ideal circumstances the person who wants to know about something and the person who has seen it are one and the same ; that unfortunately these ideal circumstances are not always the case ...
... act of communica- tion is restricted to the mere sum of its propositional contents : in- stead , much of the meaning that communication succeeds in trans- mitting ( indeed , in certain kinds of texts , almost all of it ) is located ...
Contenido
3 | |
The Synoptic Gospels | 12 |
The Gospel of John | 28 |
Touching a God | 69 |
RESPONSES AND DEVELOPMENTS | 75 |
Sources and Reflections | 77 |
The Apocrypha and Beyond | 82 |
From the Church Fathers to the CounterReformation | 122 |
Thomas in Sacred Images | 155 |
The Holy Finger | 215 |
Afterword | 223 |
Bibliographical Essays | 229 |
Illustration Credits | 257 |
Indexes | 259 |