Search for dissertations about: "Gospel of Truth"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Gospel of Truth.
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1. Rethinking the Gospel of Truth : A Study of its Eastern Valentinian Setting
Abstract : Already in the second century, the Church Father Irenaeus warned against reading the Gospel of Truth that was used among the so-called Valentinians. For more than one and a half millennium GospTruth was lost until in the 1950s a Coptic text was discovered that could be a translation of that work both loved and hated. READ MORE
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2. A Beautiful Failure : The Event of Death and Rhetorical Disorder in the Gospel according to Mark
Abstract : Is there beauty in rhetorical failure? This study is an exploration of disorder and death in the Gospel according to Mark (Mk). With a surviving fragment from the second-century theologian Papias of Hierapolis, the early reception of Mk locates insights into the composition of Jesus’s death, especially through the concepts of ataxia and rhetorical failure. READ MORE