Gnostic Nonsense

The so-called 'Gospel of Judas' is the product of a pernicious old heresy, says Peter Mullen The Gospel of Judas edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin......

Things New

And Old " Man Or cod" From a Correspondent Owing to the sudden way in whfth my wanderings were ended and I was brought into the Church. I never......

An:lot s guide to • d • • the world's religions Karen Armstrong may be a revered religious commentator, says Peter Mullen, but her attempt to......

The Erroneous Chronology Of Monk Denis The Small

Charterhouse Chronicle Brian Brindley HE TRUE DATE of the birth of Jesus Christ is a matter for perennial and universal curiosity. Every few years......

The Monstrous Myths Of Blake's Book Of Job

READING Blake is like slamming your finger in the hinges of a door. Blake subsumes Christianity in his own system of spiritual values. Some would......

God's Pledge Of Fulfilment

Isaiah 9: Prince of Peace This song of vibrant joy at the accession of a King is the most exalted of all Isaiah's messianic prophecies. It hardly......

Rewriting History

The apocryphal Gospel of Judas tells us nothing new about Jesus, says David V Barrett The Gospel of Judas by Simon Gathercole, Oxford University......

Romantic Gesture Towards Mary

THERE is no more strange slab in Rome than in the Church of Santa Maria Nova which depicts the giant footsteps made by Simon Magua, or "Simon the......

The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians Of The True...

Christ by Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince, Bantam Press, £17.99 P RI:PARE TO be flabbergasted by some outlandish suggestions poised between the......

Protests Ahead

By DAVID LODGE The Salt of the Earth, by Carlo Monterosso, translated by Isabel Quigly (Faber 25s.). I AM sorry to see that there Is a plan to......