The Lost Gospels, presented by
Anglican priest Pete Owen
Jones, is a fascinating
exploration into the huge
number of ancient Christian
texts that didn't make it into
the New Testament. Shocking
and challenging, these were
works in that presented a
Jesus who didn't die, who took
revenge on his enemies and who
kissed Mary Magda
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The Lost Gospels, presented by
Anglican priest Pete Owen
Jones, is a fascinating
exploration into the huge
number of ancient Christian
texts that didn't make it into
the New Testament. Shocking
and challenging, these were
works in that presented a
Jesus who didn't die, who took
revenge on his enemies and who
kissed Mary Magdalene on the
mouth. This Jesus is
unrecognisable from that found
in the traditional books of
the New Testament.

Pete travels through Egypt and
the former Roman Empire
looking at the emerging
evidence of a Christian world
that's very different from the
one we know. He discovers that
in addition to the gospels of
Mark, Matthew, Luke and John,
there were over 70 gospels,
acts, letters and apocalypses
circulating in the early
Church.

Through these lost Gospels,
Owen Jones reconstructs the
intense intellectual and
political struggles for
orthodoxy that were fought in
the early centuries of
Christianity, a battle
involving different Christian
sects, each convinced that
their gospels were true and
sacred.

The worldwide success of Dan
Brown's The Da Vinci Code has
sparked new interest about the
origins of the Christian
faith. Pete Owen Jones sets
out the context in which
heretical texts like the
Gospel of Mary emerged. He
also strikes a cautionary
note: if these lost Gospels
had been allowed to flourish,
Christianity may well have
faced an uncertain future, or
perhaps not survived at all.

The documentary, although a
great feat of scholarship
falls short of exploring some
other important manuscripts
such as the Gospel of Judas
and the Gospel of Barnabas. It
also fails to eplore the
evidences in the gospels of
the other possibility of
Christ's nature: that he was
entirely human.

However, the question that
really needs to be asked is:
isn't God himself supposed to
decide what comprises of his
book?

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