Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Christianity by those who wanted to create Jesus
in their own image.
Krister Stendhal, ‘Method in the Study of
Biblical Theology’, in J. Philip Hyatt (op.cit., 1964):
The gospel traditions ... in the Gospel of Thomas
or in the Agrapha may point toward traditions
which are as valid as those in the NT. For the
student of early Christian history the limitation to
the ‘biblical’ is an act of textual laziness or a
methodological sin.
Joachim Jeremias, The Parables of Jesus
(1965 edition): It is a great help which the Gospel of
Thomas gives us, in offering us eleven parables
from the Synoptics in its own version [9 20 21b/103
57 63 64 65 76 96 107 109].... [Moreover, Thomas]
contains ... four parables which are not found in
the NT [8 21a 97 98].... The text of the parables has
not been allegorically transformed, but rather has
remained intact (except for the two additions to the
parable of the thief); this confers a great value to
the tradition which the Gospel of Thomas transmits
to us.
Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah
(1977): The Holy Spirit [is] not male (feminine in
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