Philip Jenkins is also the author of "Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Social Crisis" and "Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History".
Philip Jenkins, one of the world's leading religion scholars joined Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion as Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director for the Program on Historical Studies of Religion.
"One of the many services of Mr. Jenkins's fine, carefully argued
book is to put discussion about what happened in Palestine 2,000
years ago on more reliable ground."--George Sim Johnston, The Wall
Street Journal
"Jenkins explains his thesis in language that is both clear and
fair. Hidden Gospels is admirably evenhanded."--Frederica
Mathewes-Green, Los Angeles Times
"A quite absorbing book."--Clergy Journal
"A sober, and sobering, account of how some scholars have
enthusiastically embraced 'new' or 'hidden' gospels which just
happen to support certain currently fashionable ideologies--and of
just how unwarranted such claims actually are."--N.T. Wright DD,
Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey
"Jenkins has brilliantly identified the mythic dimension of the
recent fascination with hidden gospels and alternative
Christianities."--Luke Timothy Johnson, author of The Real
Jesus
"One of the many services of Mr. Jenkins's fine, carefully argued
book is to put discussion about what happened in Palestine 2,000
years ago on more reliable ground."--George Sim Johnston, The Wall
Street Journal
"Jenkins explains his thesis in language that is both clear and
fair. Hidden Gospels is admirably evenhanded."--Frederica
Mathewes-Green, Los Angeles Times
"A quite absorbing book."--Clergy Journal
"A sober, and sobering, account of how some scholars have
enthusiastically embraced 'new' or 'hidden' gospels which just
happen to support certain currently fashionable ideologies--and of
just how unwarranted such claims actually are."--N.T. Wright DD,
Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey
"Jenkins has brilliantly identified the mythic dimension of the
recent fascination with hidden gospels and alternative
Christianities."--Luke Timothy Johnson, author of The Real
Jesus
"Jenkins makes clear that the inflated claims of the boosters of
the Gospel of Thomas are neither well founded nor all that new.
This book places the recent 'selling of Nag Hammadi' within the
larger context of American academic politics, social trends, and
New Age religions, and does all this in a manner that remains
accessible to the general reader."--John P. Meier, author of A
Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus
"...nontechnical, lucid, and well argued."--Choice
"One of the many services of Mr. Jenkins's fine, carefully argued book is to put discussion about what happened in Palestine 2,000 years ago on more reliable ground."--George Sim Johnston, The Wall Street Journal "Jenkins explains his thesis in language that is both clear and fair. Hidden Gospels is admirably evenhanded."--Frederica Mathewes-Green, Los Angeles Times "A quite absorbing book."--Clergy Journal "A sober, and sobering, account of how some scholars have enthusiastically embraced 'new' or 'hidden' gospels which just happen to support certain currently fashionable ideologies--and of just how unwarranted such claims actually are."--N.T. Wright DD, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey "Jenkins has brilliantly identified the mythic dimension of the recent fascination with hidden gospels and alternative Christianities."--Luke Timothy Johnson, author of The Real Jesus "One of the many services of Mr. Jenkins's fine, carefully argued book is to put discussion about what happened in Palestine 2,000 years ago on more reliable ground."--George Sim Johnston, The Wall Street Journal "Jenkins explains his thesis in language that is both clear and fair. Hidden Gospels is admirably evenhanded."--Frederica Mathewes-Green, Los Angeles Times "A quite absorbing book."--Clergy Journal "A sober, and sobering, account of how some scholars have enthusiastically embraced 'new' or 'hidden' gospels which just happen to support certain currently fashionable ideologies--and of just how unwarranted such claims actually are."--N.T. Wright DD, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey "Jenkins has brilliantly identified the mythic dimension of the recent fascination with hidden gospels and alternative Christianities."--Luke Timothy Johnson, author of The Real Jesus "Jenkins makes clear that the inflated claims of the boosters of the Gospel of Thomas are neither well founded nor all that new. This book places the recent 'selling of Nag Hammadi' within the larger context of American academic politics, social trends, and New Age religions, and does all this in a manner that remains accessible to the general reader."--John P. Meier, author of A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus "...nontechnical, lucid, and well argued."--Choice
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