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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 239
EAN: 9780785289067
ISBN: 0785289062
Label: Thomas Nelson
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: October 09, 2007
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Sales Rank: 98536
Studio: Thomas Nelson
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On the heels of his New York Times besteller, Breaking the Da Vinci Code, New Testament expert Darrell Bock, in an easy-to-understand writing style, helps readers examine the claims about missing 'secret' gospels and other early forms of Christianity. Bock presents samples of extra-biblical materials and compares them to biblical texts, enabling readers to make their own judgments.
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Bock's Missing Gospels is an interesting tome, but not for the faint of heart. This is not just a casual discussion of the Gnostic texts made so popular recently by the Di Vinci Code, but a thorough comparison and discussion of these texts with respect to the Orthodox Christianity of the period. Although it gets to be heavy going at times, it's quite clear from the author's discussion that the two types of text are quite different.
For one thing, anyone who has the notion from the ... Read More
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Darrell Bock's "The Missing Gospels" is, in a word, informative. Very informative. Especially for such a relatively small book. Dr. Bock does a truly scholarly job sifting through the so-called "alternative Christianities" and evaluating arguments both pro and con in a fairly even-handed manner.
He examines various players (e.g. Bart Ehrman, Helmut Koester, Elaine Pagels, Walter Baeur) and their contributions--most of whom would generally have supported the "makeover" theory.
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So this is a good read, I presume . . . and yet others out there cry for Gnostic, mystical alternative gospelalia ad nauseum . . . typical . . .
What makes the most sense is the fact that when one experiences the Christ in a personal salvation, born-again, washed-in-the-blood way -- the individual -- as myself -- will see and know the Spirit of Truth. This very real and mystical entity indwelling the spirit is the Spirit of Christ, the New Man and this blended intelligence freshly given ... Read More
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Bock arranges this book by subjects(e.g. was Jesus human, divine or both)which entails extracting the relevant material here and there from the apocryphal gospels. Thus don't expect detailed descriptions of these gospels. Just comparisons of their theology to orthodox theology.
Bock tries to be fair and comes to the same conclusion that the great majority of scholars and christians have-- the apocryphal gospels are later than the canonical New Testament and represent various deviant forms ... Read More
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Every layman needs a copy of this important contribution to the debate on early Christianity. Not only will it help in debunking certain misconceptions about the early faith, but it will serve as a primer for the study of alternative religious movements in antiquity. This could certainly be used to teach an adult Bible study-in fact it seems designed for just such a purpose, having review questions asked at the end of each chapter.
Read my full review at:
http://rdtwot.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/the ... Read More
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