Doubting Thomas / / Glenn W. Most.

From the New Testament, Glenn W. Most traces Thomas's permutations through the centuries: as Gnostic saint, missionary to India, paragon of Christian orthodoxy, hero of skepticism, and negative example of doubt, blasphemy, and violence. This work shows how Thomas's story, in its many guise...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • I. The Textual Basis
  • Seeing and Believing
  • Before Thomas: The Synoptic Gospels
  • Believing and Touching: The Gospel of John
  • Touching a God
  • II. Responses and Developments
  • Sources and Reflections
  • Narrative Developments: The Apocrypha and Beyond
  • Exegetical Reactions: From the Church Fathers to the Counter-Reformation
  • Pictorial Versions: Thomas in Sacred Images
  • The Holy Finger
  • Afterword
  • Bibliographical Essays. Illustration Credits. Indexes
  • Bibliographical Essays
  • Illustration Credits
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum