Ancient Christians wrote hundreds of gospels in the first four centuries, but the Church only accepted four of these for inclusion in the New Testament. Of those that were rejected none has received so much attention, and sparked so much controversy, as the Gospel of Thomas. Why was it repudiated by the orthodox Church Fathers to begin with, and why does it continue to fascinate, baffle, and polarize Christians around the world to this day, some 2,000 years later? Award-winning historian and Bible authority Lochlainn Seabrook answers these questions and more in his one-of-a-kind work, Jesus and the Gospel of Thomas: A Christian Mystic's View of Christianity's Most Important Ancient Text. Mr. Seabrook's study of Thomas' famous forbidden Gospel, actually a collection of 114 of Jesus' Sayings, covers its accidental discovery and mysterious history, along with current theories (both positive and negative) concerning its meaning, intentions, audience, and author. He devotes many pages, of
