It still exists in the relationship between man and nature and between men is something of transcendence. This is the domain of religion in the broadest sense, encompassing the beliefs, myths, spirituality and religion in the sense of the word which means exactly divine intervention and practice codified by texts. Religion in the broadest sense is the subject of this new journal. This is not the religion lived or the insertion of religion in the contemporary world, but religion object of observation and knowledge. For each area we have religious uses one or more historians whose work is well known. These historians make up the scientific committee of the journal. Cooperation they have given us from the beginning has allowed us to discover the extreme wealth of current knowledge is largely ignored because few disclosed.Religion & History, standing apart from the transpositions or interpretations that distort historical facts always, ask historians to present the knowledge gained. Only the scrupulous historian preserves for the reader the freedom of mind which enables him to truly learn.
The Gospel of Thomas is a text of major importance of early Christianity, even if it is known to us fully only by means of a Coptic translation contained in a manuscript of the fourth century found at Nag Hammadi (Egypt) . This paper, written in Greek, is a collection of one hundred and fourteen secret words (logoi in Greek), attributed to Jesus and presented beyond a narrative framework. Detect coherent images of Jesus in such a collection of words, to read over several decades and were collected without any clear principle of thematic organization, a business almost impossible. However, some clues in the text allow us to meet the challenge.
The Source of Jesus’ words, also called Q Source is a text now lost, but whose existence is postulated by many researchers. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke have drawn, and its earliest form may date back to 50 years. Jesus is, repeatedly, described as the? Son of Man?, A term that derives from? Son of man? (Daniel 7), from the first century BC, described as such in the Jewish writings a special character by which God takes possession of the world to save Israel. Source words how she applies this title to Jesus?
Among the Gospels in circulation in the second century, modern scholars to meet some under the label of? Judeo-Christian Gospels? because, according to the testimony of ecclesiastical writers, they were used by communities that heavily emphasized the continuity of faith in Christ and membership in Israel in perpetuating the practice of circumcision and the observance of Jewish law. Of these gospels, we only have a few citations, introduced so much confusion that one hesitates even to the number of these works. Criticism today tends to distinguish three: the Gospels of the Nazarenes, Ebionites and the Hebrews. The fragments preserved, especially the first and third, we can get an idea, certainly incomplete, images of Jesus they conveyed.
The Gospel of Peter was written before the late second century, probably in a Jewish-Christian community in Syria very hard on the Palestinian Jewish authorities did not recognize the Lord. The only section that we started was transmitted during the trial of Jesus and ends at the beginning of an apparition of the Risen Christ to Peter and two other disciples. This story of the Passion and Resurrection has many similarities with those of the New Testament Gospels, especially with that of Matthew, but he also characterized by important features, giving the image of Jesus lord, dominantpain and triumph.
The apocryphal gospel known as the Acts of Pilate refers to events that occurred since the arrest of Jesus to the days of his ascension. However, the unknown author of the text never says who Jesus is, merely suggest. He took pleasure in hiding her faith and theology behind a literary scenario of great complexity.
In its apparent simplicity, sometimes called apocryphal legend Priesthood of Christ sometimes Confession or Apology of Theodosius conceals a long history. This text probably original Judeo-Christian has become, at the option of a long process of rewriting in an orthodox sense, and controversial, example of a Christian anti-Judaism.
The Roman pseudo-Clementine, Text of the fourth century, is under the authority of Clement, historical figure who was apparently at the head of the Christian community in Rome in the late first century and was the third successor of Peter as bishop of the city. Yet, the apocryphal story shows the character as a disciple of Peter, which he would have followed immediately.In this autobiographical fiction, Clement says his conversion to Christianity and his introduction to Pierre. In doing so, he explains a doctrine essential that the true prophet, that Jesus, Son of God, would be the last event.
The Gospel of Mary is an apocryphal text dating from the second half of the second century, written perhaps in Egypt or Palestine or Syria. The character is not staged the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, but Mary Magdalene, called simply by his first name. Define the representation of Jesus in this Gospel Complex is a challenge. Indeed, the reader is quickly thrown off by the position that Jesus holds: far from being the hero, he stands back and proved singularly absent from the Gospel of Mary.
