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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... less confidence in setting out on such a line of research . In its final form this book reflects as well the new opportunities and stimulation that I have found since moving to the Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa - just as the project ...
... less than some philosophers might wish for, but it is usually, we like to think, enough to get by with in our rough and ready practical engagement with our world. But in fact experience teaches us that it is far from certain to what ...
... less amenable to distortion , more reliable ? After all , optical illusions are a familiar phenomenon , tactile illusions much less so . If we wished , we could certainly travel farther along the strictly epistemological road opened up ...
... less than some philosophers might wish for , but it is usually , we like to think , enough to get by with in our rough and ready practical engagement with our world . But in fact experience teaches us that it is far from certain to what ...
... less persuasive for human beings than eyes " ( 1.85.10 ) . But Candaules ' wife happened to see Gyges watching her and ended up betraying her husband in his turn and compelling Gyges to mur- der him : eyes are never innocent , and they ...
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 |