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The essays collected in The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins offer a series new chapters in the history of Christianity's first century. Stephen J. Patterson, whose work on the Gospel of Thomas has circulated widely for more than two decades, argues that taking this new source seriously will require rethinking a number of basic issues, including the assumed apocalyptic origins of early Christian faith, the supposed centrality of Jesus' death and resurrection, and the role of Platonism in formulation of both orthodox and heterodox Christian theology.

Apocryphal books --- Church history --- Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Apocryphal books. --- 229*411 --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Apocryphal literature --- Pseudepigrapha --- Sacred books --- Evangelie van Thomas. Koptisch evangelie van Thomas --- Bible. --- Evangelie van Thomas (Coptic Gospel) --- Evangelium Thomae Copticum --- Thomas-Evangelium (Coptic Gospel) --- Toma Pogŭmsŏ (Coptic Gospel) --- 229*411 Evangelie van Thomas. Koptisch evangelie van Thomas --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600