Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Neoplatonic metaphysics of substance and hypostases

This would point to the infamous theological controversies by Arius

The ancient Nag Hammadi Library, discovered in Egypt in the 1940s, revealed how varied this movement was

The writers of these manuscripts considered themselves ‘Christians’, but owing to their syncretistic beliefs, borrowed heavily from the Greek philosopher Plato. The find included the hotly debated Gospel of Thomas, which parallels some of Jesus’ sayings in the Synoptic Gospels

This may point to the existence of a postulated lost textual source for the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, known as the Q document




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