Yesterday, Saturday 24th March whilst in the city of Dublin, I noticed that Jeffrey Archer - who had guest appeared on the long running Late, Late Show the night previous with Father Moloney - was signing copies of his latest work.I decided that I should at least purchase a copy and decide for myself on how to interpret and apply its meaning but as I was meeting with others, I would not have the opportunity to chat with the co-authors.
In the evening, I had the pleasurable company of a young man who is gnostic and a most unassuming but intelluctal young man he is indeed.
The Gospel of Judas came up for discussion, and in the course of our conversation, I felt that I would like to share some more of this knowledge with you all so the young man sent me the link to what I consider to be most helpful info...
Click on the above link for yourself (and indeed the other links therein) and let me know what you think feel etc and feel free to get back to me and perhaps an open forum can be developed in relation to this.
After I have finished reading the book, I will post my views etc here also.
Those of you who are also interested in the deep and inspiring conversation abounding yesterday, this young man has his own blog also...
...and merits a visit...enjoy!!
‘Gospel’ according to Judas
A week ago, the Jesuits of the Pontifical Biblical Institute were informed in the course of a regular community meeting that their main lecture hall would be in use on March 20 at the request of a former faculty member (Salesian Fr Frank Moloney) for the public launch of a novel he had co-authored with Jeffrey Archer.
A week ago, the Jesuits of the Pontifical Biblical Institute were informed in the course of a regular community meeting that their main lecture hall would be in use on March 20 at the request of a former faculty member (Salesian Fr Frank Moloney) for the public launch of a novel he had co-authored with Jeffrey Archer.
The rector apologized in advance for any inconvenience caused by the event itself and for any ructions caused by attendant publicity.
That publicity -- both before and after the event -- gave rise to unusual headlines ("Pope Gives Blessing to Gospel of Jeffrey Archer"), including some from the Times of London - "Jesus never turned water into wine, He did not walk on the water and He never calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee."
However according to Fr. Paul Mankowski SJ, from the the Pontifical Biblical Institute neither the Pope nor the Vatican blessed the Archer-Moloney novel and that the Pontifical Biblical Institute merely provided the venue for the launch, but had nothing to do with the content of the book.
"In crudely commercial terms, the authors' choice of Rome as a launch-site and their use of the words "Vatican" and "Pontifical" in their promotional efforts was a shrewd move," said their statement.
Fr Moloney', a former Dean of the Australian Catholic University, insists that certain miracles of Jesus recorded in the Gospels never really took place. This is a stance not compatible with Catholic orthodoxy though many heterodox scholars hold similar views.
According to the Jesuits source criticism or form criticism are valuable tools in biblical studies.
But the connections they make are connections that obtain between texts, and they are useless for telling people whether something reported in a given text really happened or not.
In interviews on Irish radio and television over the weekend, Fr Moloney, was very convinced of the basic ideas in the book. Jeffery Archer is the storyteller and accepted the guidelines of Fr Moloney.
Fr Moloney speaks about what is probable and rejects what is improbable. He uses the ideas of the Old Testament where the works of Yahweh demonstrated that Yahweh is God and here in the New Testament (and in this ‘gospel’) the actions reflect that Jesus is God.
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