Holy Terror: Jesus in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas

by J.R.C. Cousland

Book Overview

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas (or Paidika) is one of the most unusual gospels in the Christian tradition. Instead of revealing the compassionate Jesus so familiar to us from the biblical Gospels, it confronts its readers with a very different Jesus - a child who sometimes acts like a holy terror, killing and harming others for trifling faults. So why is Jesus portrayed as acting in such an 'unchristian' fashion? To address this question, Cousland focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567688801
• ISBN13: 9780567688804
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"