Abstract:
The aim of this article is to present to South-African theologians, ministers
and believers, in fairly popular fashion, the current debate in regard
to some aspects of the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas. Attention is
given to the discovery, text and publication of the Gospel of Thomas, the
question of its dependence on or independence from the Synoptic gospels,
the possible date of the Gospel, as well as to its theology (being
either gnostic or non-gnostic). Finally, a few remarks in regard to the
value of the studying of the Gospel of Thomas, in terms of theological
debates in the church, are made.
