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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... issues which might be thought to belong more properly to such scholarly disciplines as theology, New Testament studies, church history, and the history of art may be explained, but is of course not adequately justified, by appeal to the ...
... issues of belief and disbelief , faith and doubt , are worked out within the constraints of different forms of communication ranging from the verbal , in narrative and exegesis , to the visual , in painting and sculpture . The focus ...
... issues which might be thought to belong more properly to such scholarly disciplines as the- ology , New Testament studies , church history , and the history of art may be explained , but is of course not adequately justified , by appeal ...
... issues , and suggestions for further reading into a series of bibliographical essays which appear at the end . Even slender books can accumulate massive debts . In the present case , the length of the gestation of this study and the ...
... issues I discuss , I must leave my read- ers to judge . I am deeply grateful to a large number of friends , acquaintances , and family members , who for years have borne , relatively uncom- plainingly , with my obstinate questions and ...
Contenido
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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 |