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by: Tim Freke, Peter Gandy
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.932
EAN: 9781401918385
ISBN: 1401918387
Label: Hay House
Manufacturer: Hay House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: Hay House
Sales Rank: 97115
Studio: Hay House
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In 2005, a disgruntled archivist at the Vatican Library made contact with revisionist historians Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, claiming that the Vatican was secretly housing a number of unpublished “heretical” Gnostic Christian texts. He presented Freke and Gandy with a facsimile copy of an ancient manuscript, which is presented to the public for the first time in this book.
This gospel will shock academics and Christians alike. It makes the extraordinary claim that the long-awaited “Second Coming of Christ” has already happened; and it also explores the intimate relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, his “Beloved Disciple.”
And, perhaps most controversial of all, it reveals Jesus as a Gnostic master with a zany sense of humor and an upbeat message. As Jesus says himself in the text: “Death is coming. Life is foreplay.”
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Rating:  - Failed Attempt at Humor
This was an attempt to be funny by writers not talented at being funny. Humor is really hard to pull off, and these two don't manage it. They do what many people who are not naturally funny do when they want to be funny. They have their characters (Jesus and company, in this case) say things that only modern people would say or understand, like modern slang expressions. And this is supposed to make us laugh because it's coming from biblical Israelites. But it doesn't. Humor requires more than ... Read More
Rating:  - A favourite book
What I particularly like about this book is the clear explanation of the symbolism in the Jesus story. I kept thinking "Why didn't I see that before?"
Gnosis, however, is harder to attain than the authors like to make out - so I have found.
Rating:  - For freking gandily out loud.
This is not the best book in the series, and a series it is, all decked out in similar covers. There are no doubt learned men and women out there who have as fine a degree as one of these authors, but they do not sell as many books, because they do not have that factor. It is important to get this message out, for as they put it here in this book, what remains of our Christian culture is about to throw out the Christchild with the bathwater, and we should ought not to do it. But the facts that support ... Read More
Rating: - Gnosticism Lite
In "The Gospel of the Second Coming," Freke and Gandy push their non-literalist understanding of the Jesus story to the limit. Their tools are deprecatory humor and a sort of Brechtian irony, in which the Gospel characters deconstruct themselves. Nothing is safe from their sarcastic scrutiny: God, Jesus, Peter, Mary Magdalene, even their own previous writings come in for an endless round of wisecracks. Their point, they claim, is to enlighten us about the true meaning of the Jesus story, as it was understood ... Read More
Rating: - Setting the Record Straight
Although literally flooded with the New Testament version of events for most of my life, I never really understood the complete truth about Christianity until I read "The Gospel of the Second Coming." Through this modern parable, Freke and Gandy present the Gnostic point of view, which finally tells the whole story of the 1st century CE. "God" is not the jealous, cruel, vengeful dictator of the OT and "Jesus" is not the literal person, being born without a father, performing miracles, and rising from the dead. Instead, ... Read More
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