Almost as soon as the Early Church began changing hearts for Christ, a new heretical group popped up and tried to sway a great many away from the Gospel. This included the Gnostic Gospels, a group of ...

The Gospel of Thomas is one of many books that early church leaders rejected when they compiled the New Testament. Even so, some modern-day biblical experts are taking a new look at the Gospel of ...

When Oscar Cullman announced the discovery of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas (CHRISTIANITY TODAY, April 19, 1959, issue), popular newspapers and magazines spread sensational reports of the ...

Alex O’Connor discusses the rediscovery of ancient Christian writings that never became part of the New Testament. Early ...

Many of those who argue against the relevance of Thomas’s Gospel will seek to disqualify the text by saying that it’s a much later addition than the other Gospels, or that the author certainly wasn’t ...

This book opens with the lines, "These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and the twin, Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down." Then there follows a list of the sayings of Jesus. Now ...

The earliest manuscript of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was found in a German university library after sitting for decades. Greg Rosenke via Unsplash At the Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky State and ...

Poor Thomas the Apostle! Christians through the centuries have branded him with the name “doubting Thomas” and have held him up to scorn as an example of weak faith. However, this treatment of Thomas ...

Last summer brought big news for scholars of early Christianity. Three previously unknown gospel fragments were published for the first time as part of an ongoing series, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. These ...

One of the biggest pieces missing from biblical accounts of Jesus’ life is his childhood. But apocryphal accounts, such as the Gospel of Thomas, do talk about Jesus’ reportedly miraculous early years.

The Gospel of Thomas has been the hot extrabiblical text this year, judging from the best seller status of Elaine Pagels's Beyond Belief and strong sales for translations and interpretations of this ...