
Secret Scrolls
Revelations from the Lost Gospel Novels
Robert M. Price(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 27. December 2010
358 pages
978-1-4982-7142-4 (ISBN)
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Secret Scrolls is the very first examination of some forty novels in which someone discovers a new gospel. Sometimes it turns out to be a hoax; will it be debunked before it can work its mischief? If it proves genuine, will it be brought to light? Or will corrupt church officials manage to prevent it?
The book evaluates what each author has to say about historical Jesus scholarship or New Testament research in general. Sometimes the authors have done their homework; other times they haven't bothered, and they wind up dishing up crazy rewrites of history and outlandish theories.
These novels deal with abiding issues of faith, even without some new discovery. As soon as one engages in biblical apologetics, one has stepped onto the marshy ground of probabilistic arguments, an entirely different epistemology that automatically replaces simple faith. And so one comes to hold one's religious convictions more tentatively, having become genuinely vulnerable to new evidence. One may not remain a believer for long. On the other hand, one invites fanaticism if one's faith is dangerously predicated on the assurance that no new discovery will send one back to the drawing board.
Secret Scrolls assesses what each author imagines it would take to derail and debunk Christianity. How mighty a blow must be dealt before the religion would fall? Dan Brown's notion that a married Jesus would debunk the Nicene Creed is laughable.
As Wilbert Francis Howard once argued in his brief and fascinating history of New Testament research, there is a genuine "romance of New Testament scholarship," and many of us are delighted to have the adventure continue in the speculative imaginations of capable novelists. These books can both entertain and educate, and so will Secret Scrolls.
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English
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-4982-7142-4 (9781498271424)
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Robert M. Price, PhD Drew University, has served as Professor of Religion at Mount Olive College, pastor of First Baptist Church in Montclair, New Jersey, and Director of the Metro NY Center for Inquiry. Among his many books he is the author of Beyond Born Again, The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts, Deconstructing Jesus, and The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Introduction: The Romance of Imaginary New Testament Scholarship
- Chapter 1: Higher Critical Hoax
- Chapter 2: Raiders of the Lost Gospel
- Chapter 3: Mystery in the Monastery
- Chapter 4: The Q Connection
- Chapter 5: Strangers in a Cave
- Chapter 6: Harpooning the Fish
- Chapter 7: Evangel and Espionage
- Chapter 8: The Gospel of Cain and Abel
- Chapter 9: Pontius is my Co-Pilate
- Chapter 10: Remembrance of Lives Past
- Chapter 11: The Real (Strange) Bible
- Chapter 12: Dem Dry Bones
- Chapter 13: Bad News Oracle
- Chapter 14: It's in the Vault
- Chapter 15: Frisky Father Folan
- Chapter 16: Looking for Luke
- Chapter 17: Under the Lid
- Chapter 18: But I'm Not Dead Yet!
- Chapter 19: The Q Contender
- Chapter 20: Profane Pilgrim
- Chapter 21: The Hidden and the Revealed
- Chapter 22: Book of Betrayal
- Chapter 23: Messiah's Memoir
- Chapter 24: The Mother Lode
- Chapter 25: Sexy Swashbuckler
- Chapter 26: Elementary, My Dear Mary!
- Chapter 27: Nancy Drew versus Simon Magus
- Chapter 28: James M. Robinson in Strange Company
- Chapter 29: John's Gospel: The Sequel
- Chapter 30: Discovering Faith and Flesh
- Chapter 31: The Q Conundrum
- Chapter 32: The Q Conspiracy
- Chapter 33: The Merovingian
- Chapter 34: Skeleton Lock and Key
- Chapter 35: The Loosely-Conceived Gospel
- Chapter 36: Mary Maudlin
- Chapter 37: Ecumenical Revelation
- Chapter 38: Is it I, Lord?
- Chapter 39: The Ultimate Relic
- Chapter 40: Constantine's Conspiracy
- Chapter 41: Copts and Robbers
- Conclusion: Don't Look Now . . .
- Bibliography
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