Hey Tom, I hope your Holidays have gone well... and the same for everyone else here. Tom, you state.... ... built around harmonic parallels to the process and...
Hi Karl, Harmonizing is in no way the opposite of analyzing. In music you cannot draw a line between the ability to take a piece apart from the ability to put...
Hello, I'd like to announce a new edition of The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom by Stevan Davies. (Incidentally, Steve is the list-owner though he...
Tom.... ... a 'piece' apart and put it together in our minds, to me is like the statement in Phillip which says, 'faith receives and love gives.' It is like an...
I'd like to add my recommendation to that of Andrew Smith, who doubles as "booklister" on Amazon and has compiled as fine a list of Thomas books as I can...
Thanks, I ordered that book from Amazon. It was even on sale. :) [Michael Mozina] ... From: Andrew Smith [mailto:smithand44@...] Sent: Friday, January...
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I've really enjoyed reading your discussions on this topic. I would suggest that LOVE and UNITY and the INDWELLING of the presense of God make up the harmony,...
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Hi Karl, I certainly did not mean to imply that music is a strictly analytical process. However my point is that it is a structured art-form that has natural...
I'm not sure whether there is anything in this or not, but I found it an intriguing possibility. I've been thinking about structure and pattern in Thomas and...
... As you know, I quite agree with this intuition, Andrew, though it seems difficult to prove with any certainty. I don't agree that there's any indication...
If the Gthom has some relationship to the concepts of Oriental thought, like the I-Ching it is possible that the number of sayings may at one time have...
Hey Tom, you state... ... analytical process. However my point is that it is a structured art- form that has natural tendencies which gives it certain ...
Andrew Smith of Bardic Press offered the publisher's blurb for a 2nd edition ... ("112 in Thomas"). Don't these represent a willful misreading of what seems to...
... From: "Karl" <pmcvflag@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 12:25 AM Subject: [GTh] Re: The Cave of John the Baptist. ...
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... edition ... been ... the ... Steve's argument in this essay is that Thomas' lack of order and lack of coherence allows him to compare it to oracle texts...
... and how the total would stack up mathematically for a correlation to the geometric schema of the I-Ching. We do see some similarity in possible 'stacking'...
... From: "Andrew Smith" <smithand44@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:15 AM Subject: [GTh] Re: The gospel of Thomas...
[Andrew Criddle] ... Thanks, Andrew. A few comments: Judging from the article, the heretical practice of "sortilege" or "sacred lots" seems to have been...
To Andrew C: In further response to your note, I thought I'd mention some of the many numerical "coincidences" of the Coptic text (too many, really, for me ......
... Yes, Metzger did indeed mention it in _The Text of the New Testament_ pg 33. There are plenty of examples of "amulets" and the like which were clearly used...
"Don't these represent a willful misreading of what seems to be a simple reference to the possibility that an individual GTh saying may have been randomly...
Say Frank, you state.... ... universally accepted definition of "Gnosticism". It means different things to different people, and that's the rub."<<< True, but...
... Suggestion... The difficulty lies in the following: the confusion arises practically over is any one who uses the word gnosis a gnostic? Which is a close...
... As with so much of what Tom writes, the reasoning here is badly muddled. On the one hand, he can't stop himself from thinking of everything in terms of ...
Hi Rogier, What if we go with "Thomist" and ditch Gnostic, and Christian. What coincides with 'Thomist' material, and makes another work, Thomist? Tom...
FWIW 'Thomist' is usually used in scholarship to describe the school of thought inspired by Thomas Aquinas. Best wishes, Jacob Knee (Cam, Glos.) ... From: Tom...
IMO themes shared between the Gospel of Thomas and Alexandrian Gnostic traditions but not present in either the Acts of Thomas or Thomas the Contender are not...
