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    Jesus' Twin: A Dialogue with the Gospel of Thomas
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    Jesus' Twin: A Dialogue with the Gospel of Thomas

    By James W. Heisig

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    In Jesus' Twin, a scholar shares his personal reflections into the Gospel of Thomas offering a learned, accessible introduction as well as inspiring insights into these ancient texts that have long stirred curiosity and inquiry. James Heisig, who has read and studied the texts throughout his distinguished career as a scholar and teacher of religions, shows that the reasons for excluding the Gospel of Thomas from the Christian tradition are largely meaningless for us today. After more than half a century of concerted dialogue with other traditions, we are in a better position to recognize that not every alter Jesus is a Jesus alias. At the same time, attention to the spiritual demands being made on Christianity by our present age helps draw us more deeply into the text itself and control the tendency to immunize ourselves against its discomforts, whether through the distractions of scholarly disputation or the preoccupation with preserving orthodoxy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Crossroad Publishing Company
    Release dateFeb 15, 2015
    ISBN9780824520724
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    Jesus' Twin: A Dialogue with the Gospel of Thomas
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    James W. Heisig

    James W. Heisig is a professor emeritus at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, where he has spent the past forty-five years promoting the dialogue among philosophies and religions East and West at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. Widely known to hundreds of thousands of students for revolutionizing the study of the Chinese and Japanese writing systems, his published writings and translations have contributed greatly to the study of Japanese philosophy around the world.

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