NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 51, Issue 1, 1997

Abstract In the pseudo-Justinian treatise Ad Graecos (probably written in the early 4th century), considerable attention is paid to the notion that it was the fear of undergoing the same fate as Socrates did that withheld Plato from openly acknowledging his dependency upon Moses. In the face of pagan criticism of the Christian annexation of Plato, the author tries thus to save Plato as a pre-Christian witness for the truth of the G Read More

Abstract The striking trinitarian formula of Logion 44 in the Gospel of Thomas has drawn the attention of scholars from the very beginning. Those scholars who date the Gospel in the first century C.E. find in it either a particular early development of a specific independent tradition or a hopelessly corrupt form of such an early tradition. Some scholars who date this Gospel ca. 140 C.E. opt for the possibility that the collect Read More

Abstract Winnicott’s particular psychoanalytic theory of culture leads to an appraisal of religion which is completely different from the traditional Freudian one. He does not view religion primarily in an instinctual context as infantile wish fulfilment. Rather, he interprets religion against the background of self-development and the life-lasting human need for creative interaction between the subject and the object world in the Read More