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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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Lastly, I have appended five essays as<br />

commentary: (1) ‘Are the Coptic <strong>Gospels</strong><br />

Gnostic?’, a formal demonstration that they<br />

cannot be so categorized; (2) ‘<strong>The</strong> Maternal<br />

Spirit’, on the gender in the Semitic<br />

languages <strong>of</strong> #dqh xwr [rúakh ha-qódesh,<br />

Spirit the-Holy]; (3) ‘<strong>The</strong>ogenesis’, on the<br />

intimation in <strong>Philip</strong> that the original human<br />

transgression consisted in claiming to<br />

produce children, rather than accepting<br />

them as begotten by God alone; (4) ‘Angel,<br />

Image and Symbol’, regarding these three<br />

primary concepts as found in the new<br />

scriptures, together with their underlying<br />

metaphysical framework <strong>of</strong> an apparent<br />

Spiritual Idealism; and (5) ‘<strong>The</strong> Paul<br />

Paradox’, a philosophical analysis <strong>of</strong> the<br />

evident discrepancies between the <strong>Gospels</strong><br />

and the theology <strong>of</strong> Saul <strong>of</strong> Tarsus, together<br />

with a survey <strong>of</strong> similar critiques by many<br />

pre-eminent individuals across the<br />

centuries.<br />

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