Gospel of Thomas – the mystical sayings of Jesus

Gospel of Thomas

Gather together as we explore and listen to the Gospel of Thomas. Each week we will prayerfully listen to one of Jesus’ sayings from this ancient source and take time to reflect upon what rises for each of us.

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More about The Gospel of Thomas:

The Gospel of Thomas is one of the 52 texts discovered at Nag Hamadi in 1945 and represents some of the earliest Christian teachings. Many of the Nag Hamadi codices were initially classified as Gnostic, a category that placed them outside of mainstream Christian thinking.

It is highly likely that The Gospel of Thomas was written before the four New Testament gospels. Stevan L. Davies, Ph.D. is an influential author of 18 scholarly books and Professor of Religious Studies. He argues that the apparent independence of the ordering of sayings in Thomas from that of their parallels in the first three Gospels shows that Thomas was not evidently reliant upon the canonical gospels and probably predated them.

The Gospel of Thomas is very different in tone and structure from the four canonical Gospels. Unlike the Gospels in our Bibles, it is not a narrative account of the life of Jesus; instead, it consists of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus.

Scholars regard the Gospel of Thomas as one of the most important texts in understanding early Christianity outside the New Testament. A central theme of the Gospel of Thomas is that salvation comes through a mystical understanding and experience of the words of Jesus rather than through doctrines to believe in or sacraments to do.