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John Dickson
A Spectator’s Guide to the Gospel of Judas
Published date: Friday, August 18, 2006
By: John Dickson

John Dickson gives us a summary of all we need to know about the Gospel of Judas

  • We’ve known of the existence of a ‘Gospel of Judas’ ever since Bishop Irenaeus toward the end of the second century made reference to a newly devised Gospel designed to cast Judas as the hero of the faith (and all the other apostles as ill-informed).
  • The sole manuscript copy of the Gospel of Judas was discovered in Egypt in the mid-1970s.
  • The manuscript itself dates

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Faith on the chopping block
Published date: Monday, September 01, 2003
By: John Dickson
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In the 2003 Smith Lecture, John Dickson outlined the major flaws in a ‘pluralistic’ outlook in both the popular pluralism of contemporary culture or the more sophisticated pluralism of the academy. He then considers whether Christianity can stand up in the face of its claims.

Pluralism’s fatal flaw
One problem can be stated quite simply. In seeking to affirm all religious perspectives, pluralistic cultures like ours tend to honour none of

Filed under : Theology & Apologetics •
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