Tag: Arthur, Richard L.
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The Gospel of Judas: Is it a Hoax?
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 35-48 What shall we make of the authenticity of the recently published Gospel of Judas? Was this sensational find really written by a second-century scribe, a Gnostic whose theology we are familiar with from the Nag Hammadi texts?[1] Or was it written in our own time,…
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BOOK REVIEW: [i]Sacred Violence: Paul’s Hermeneutic of the Cross[/i]. By Robert Hamerton-Kelly. Fortress Press, 1992.
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 1, 1997 – Pages 127-131 Not since the days of Bultmann’s challenge to “demythologize” has there been anything like the commotion over Rene Girard’s attempt to reformulate New Testament theology. Robert Hamerton-Kelly’s book Sacred Violence is the best exposition of the Girardian approach applied to the theology of Paul.[1] Kelly…