The Gospel of the Second Coming - Hardcover

Freke, Timothy; Gandy, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401918387 ISBN 13: 9781401918385

Publisher: Hay House Inc, 2007

Synopsis

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with revisionist historians Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, claiming that the Vatican was secretly housing a number of unpublished “heretical” Gnostic Christian texts.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.”

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Review:

Freke and Gandy's Gospel of the Second Coming belongs to exactly the same species as the Gnostic Gospels of Nag Hammadi. Like them, it is a fictive dialogue presenting its authors' best insights as if Jesus had said them. Okay, it's a lot funnier than the Nag Hammadi books, but I've always thought satire is the true prophecy anyway. Read it if you dare! (Robert M. Price Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies and the author of Jesus is Dead)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hay House Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1401918387
• ISBN 13: 9781401918385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 196