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Doubting Thomas
From the New Testament, Most traces Thomas’s many permutations: Gnostic saint, missionary to India, paragon of Christian orthodoxy, hero of skepticism, and example of doubt, blasphemy, and violence. Most shows how Thomas’s story, in its many guises, touches upon central questions of religion, philosophy, hermeneutics, and, not least, life.
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Doubting Thomas
From the New Testament, Most traces Thomas’s many permutations: Gnostic saint, missionary to India, paragon of Christian orthodoxy, hero of skepticism, and example of doubt, blasphemy, and violence. Most shows how Thomas’s story, in its many guises, touches upon central questions of religion, philosophy, hermeneutics, and, not least, life.
From the New Testament, Most traces Thomas’s many permutations: Gnostic saint, missionary to India, paragon of Christian orthodoxy, hero of skepticism, and example of doubt, blasphemy, and violence. Most shows how Thomas’s story, in its many guises, touches upon central questions of religion, philosophy, hermeneutics, and, not least, life.
Glenn W. Most is Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Table of Contents
Contents Preface List of Abbreviations I. THE TEXTUAL BASIS Seeing and Believing Before Thomas: The Synoptic Gospels Believing and Touching: The Gospel of John Touching a God II. RESPONSES AND DEVELOPMENTS Sources and Reflections Narrative Developments: The Apocrypha and Beyond Exegetical Reactions: From the Church Fathers to the Counter-Reformation Pictorial Versions: Thomas in Sacred Images The Holy Finger Afterword Bibliographical Essays Illustration Credits Indexes
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The nature of belief, its relation to seeing and to touching, is at the center of this fascinating and strikingly lucid account of the problematic New Testament figure of Thomas, better known as Doubting Thomas. Whether exploring the vexing ambiguities in Chapter 20 of the Gospel of John or the subtle differences in the iconography of their representation from the Middle Ages to Caravaggio in the late Renaissance, Glenn Most is always insightful, illuminating, engaging. This is a terrific book.
John O'Malley
an intriguing book that explores a number of issues that go beyond its immediate subject. — John O'Malley, author of Four Cultures of the West
Anthony Grafton
Glenn Most takes us on a magical mystery tour through two millennia of Doubting Thomas's afterlife. This artful and erudite book illuminates a vast range of texts, commentaries, and paintings. Provocative, minutely observant, and compulsively readable, this study sets a new standard for what it means to study the reception of any passage in a canonical book. — Anthony Grafton, author of The Footnote: A Curious History
Mark Strand
The nature of belief, its relation to seeing and to touching, is at the center of this fascinating and strikingly lucid account of the problematic New Testament figure of Thomas, better known as Doubting Thomas. Whether exploring the vexing ambiguities in Chapter 20 of the Gospel of John or the subtle differences in the iconography of their representation from the Middle Ages to Caravaggio in the late Renaissance, Glenn Most is always insightful, illuminating, engaging. This is a terrific book.
Ronald Cameron
In weaving a narrative of the cultural history of reception and transmission of one of the most arresting, and misunderstood, pericopes in the New Testament, the author provides the reader with a lively analytical study of central questions of faith and doubt, skepticism and persuasion synchronically and diachronically. I don't know of another book quite like this one. It's well-written, in a lively, learned style and is a genuine pleasure to read. — Ronald Cameron, author Redescribing Christian Origins
