O evangelho de Tomé e a construção de um cristianismo esquecido

Abstract

This work proposed to examine the Gospel of Thomas and the building of a Forgotten Christianity. This research had as an object of investigation the fragment of the Gospel of Thomas (centuries I-II) and as an aim to understand the Gospel manuscript of Thomas in the II century to the Primitive Christianity. The theoretical and methodological contributions which conducted this research is based on the perspective of Cultural History of the Religions interdisciplinary to the Religion Sciences, given that this research in the literature extra canonic. The central problem of this research is intended about what are the decisive factors to the exclusion of the fifth Gospel of Thomas of the Nicaea Canon. It was used as theoretical support the authors as Robinson (2014), Pagels (2006), Crossan (2004), and Layton (2002). The methodology of this research is embedded in the qualitative approach, with a contextual analysis of the texts of the Primitive Christianity, of the Gospel of Thomas and apocryphal, together to the technical procedure of the bibliographic research, and descriptive content. In this way, in the first chapter we approached the building of the canon of Nicaea; In the second chapter, we worked with the Gospel of Thomas in its discursive form; and The third and last chapter, the connections of the primitive Christianity with fragments of the Gospel of Thomas. This research brought to light this onset of a Primitive Christianity side less known, allowing the investigation of this theme without the building of dogmas available, as well as, showing a wide variety of diversities within the Christian Religion and the multiples sides of the Christianity.