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The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity

Elaine Pagels

...90–140 AD). Did Jesus actually offer secret teaching? The source scholars generally agree is earliest, the Gospel of Mark, says explicitly that Jesus did offer secret teaching to his closest...

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The salvation of Spinoza

David Lloyd Dusenbury

...highly of Jesus and his ethic of love – where Sade detests both. The intrusion of Jesus’ name here is less odd than it might strike us. As we will...

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The joy of suffering

Candida Moss

...the Jesus movement, suffering like and for Jesus has been a central tenet of Christian self-understanding, viewed as inherently desirable and good, an experience that conferred preferential status on those...

Review

The Gospel according to Judas

Lance Jenott

...its polemical aims. Its story expands on what Jesus did and said before Passover because that is precisely when Jesus instituted the Eucharist in terms of the biblical god’s covenant...

Podcast

The story of the Jesuits: how the Society of Jesus charted the world by M.Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J

As Jesuit missionaries spread further across the globe, the order’s founder wanted to ensure that its members remained connected. The result of this was an unparalleled network of knowledge which...

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Reassessing Christian history

Diarmaid Macculloch

...we might mistake for a surname, so he is called “Jesus Christ”. Yet Christ is not a name but a title, significantly not in the Aramaic which Jesus spoke, but...

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The story of the Jesuits — how the Society of Jesus charted the world

M.Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.

...One such group, approved by Pope Paul III as a new religious order in 1540, was the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, as they soon came to be known. These...

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Reclaiming Christian freedom for the modern age

Richard Chartres

Old beliefs based on fundamental principles once had the authority to champion liberation from base instincts and arbitrary social forces. We must reclaim that inheritance. Jesus in the house of...

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Christianity in a cold climate - Jesuit encounters with Japan

M.Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.

...early encounters of the Japanese in Japan with members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order of men founded in 1540 to propagate the Christian faith. The...

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An Easter elegy

Fergus Butler-Gallie

...off: the explosion in biblical studies after the 18th century gave us ideas like the ‘swoon hypothesis’, that Jesus only fainted on the cross; or the ‘Jesus is a mushroom’...