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• ThomasPeople

  Thomas was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. He declared that he would not believe until he had seen the risen Jesus for himself, and he then confessed, "My Lord and my God."

• Gospel of ThomasHistory

  The Gospel of Thomas is an ancient document containing a collection of 114 sayings of Jesus. Its complete Coptic text was discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. It is not included in the biblical canon.

• Thomas AquinasPeople

  Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and the leading theologian of medieval Scholasticism. He wrote the Summa Theologiae and is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and Doctor of the Church.

• Thomas à KempisPeople

  Thomas à Kempis was a German-born monk who lived and worked in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century. He is known as the author of The Imitation of Christ, a devotional book that has been widely read across denominational lines.

• Thomas CranmerPeople

  Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was the Archbishop of Canterbury who led the English Reformation and compiled the Book of Common Prayer, the foundation of Anglican worship. He was burned at the stake under Mary I.

• Thomas MüntzerPeople

  Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–1525) was a radical reformer of the German Reformation. He initially followed Martin Luther but later broke with him, and in 1525 he led peasant forces in the German Peasants' War before being executed.

• Thomas MertonPeople

  Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was an American Catholic Trappist monk and priest. He was also a poet and spiritual writer and is widely known for his spiritual autobiography *The Seven Storey Mountain*, published in 1948.

• Robert Jermain ThomasPeople

  Robert Jermain Thomas was a Welsh missionary of the London Missionary Society. In 1866 he sailed up the Taedong River as an interpreter aboard the American merchant ship General Sherman and was killed at Pyongyang. Korean Protestants commonly regard him as their first martyr.

• Infancy Gospel of ThomasHistory

  The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an early Christian apocryphal work that collects miracle stories from the childhood of Jesus between the ages of five and twelve. It is thought to have been written around the second century. Despite the similar name, it is a different book from the Gospel of Thomas found at Nag Hammadi.

• T. S. EliotPeople

  Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) was an American-born British poet and critic. After publishing *The Waste Land*, he was baptized into the Church of England in 1927, and in 1948 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

• C. T. StuddPeople

  C. T. Studd (1860–1931) was a British missionary and former England international cricketer. As one of the Cambridge Seven, he went to China, later served in India, and then worked in Africa, where he founded the forerunner of WEC International.

• N. T. WrightPeople

  N. T. Wright (Tom Wright, born 1948) is an English Anglican bishop and New Testament scholar. He served as Bishop of Durham and is regarded as a leading scholar of the "New Perspective on Paul."

• John 20:28Bible Verses

  John 20:28 is the verse in which Thomas, encountering the risen Jesus, confesses, "My Lord and my God." Because it is one of the principal New Testament texts that directly call Jesus "God," it is frequently cited in discussions of the divinity of Jesus.

• Nag Hammadi LibraryHistory

  The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of Coptic manuscripts from around the fourth century, discovered in 1945 near Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Containing some fifty works, including the Gospel of Thomas, it has become a key source for the study of Gnosticism in the early Christian era.

• Oxyrhynchus PapyriHistory

  The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a large body of papyrus documents excavated from the late nineteenth century onward from the rubbish mounds of the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. They include New Testament manuscripts and Greek fragments of the Gospel of Thomas, among other texts.

• The Imitation of ChristChristian Life

  The imitation of Christ is an attitude of faith that seeks to live according to the character and life of Jesus Christ. The term also refers to a fifteenth-century devotional book of the same title, traditionally attributed to Thomas à Kempis.

• John 20Bible

  John 20 opens with Mary Magdalene's discovery of the empty tomb and recounts the appearances of the risen Jesus to Mary, to the disciples, and to Thomas. The chapter closes with a statement of the book's purpose.

• History of Protestantism in KoreaHistory

  The history of Protestantism in Korea extends from the arrival of American missionaries in 1884–1885 to the present day. It encompasses the arrival of missionaries, revival movements and church organization, persecution and the Shinto shrine worship controversy under Japanese rule, and denominational divisions and growth after liberation.

• John 20:31Bible Verses

  A verse in which the author of the Gospel of John states the purpose of the book: that readers might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing they might have life through his name. It is frequently cited as a key to reading the Gospel of John as a whole.