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The voice of Jesus resonates anew in the Gospel of Thomas,
Reviving the lost heart of Christianity!!

The Gospel of Thomas was kept in an underground jar for 16 centuries, but was finally revealed to the world in December 1945.
This document has been recognized by leading scholars from all walks of life as the most vivid document conveying the truth about the historical Jesus.
Author Dool defines this document as the verbal material that forms the formative part of the four Gospels, and conducts a fierce literary and editorial critique of it.
The Gospel of Thomas overturns our thinking.
The kingdom of God, that is, heaven, is a kingdom on this earth.
“Country” is not a spatial concept, but “rule” (basileia).
The rule of heaven is a “new order.”
Now a new country has come to our land.
We are trying to get rid of the old order and create a country where everyone pursues love, reconciliation, and understanding.
What is most important in these times (kairos) is a new understanding of the gospel (good news).


The miraculous discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, which had been dormant for 1,600 years,
Finally we meet the living words of Jesus!!

The miraculous discovery of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas on the cliffs of Gebel al-Tarif in the Arabian Desert, on the upper reaches of the Nile River, in December 1945 was hailed as an event that marked a new era in Christian theology.
From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, German theological circles persistently pushed the hypothesis that there was a sayings gospel that was a collection of fragments of “Jesus said” that preceded the current four gospels (narrative gospel), and surprisingly, this hypothesis was confirmed as a physical reality.
The Gospel of Thomas is a record of the words of “the living Jesus” spoken by Thomas.
This gospel consists of only 114 sayings of Jesus, and the important thing is that the content of these saying fragments is not separate from the current gospel, but contains almost all the same content as the current gospel.
However, when comparing the Gospel of Thomas with the current four gospels, it becomes clear that the Gospel of Thomas is a more original source.

The Gospel of Thomas precedes the Synoptic Gospels!!
The words of Jesus written on the tomb are the original form of Jesus' words!!

We call the three gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which are said to have been written from the same perspective as the four gospels, the synoptic gospels.
Of these synoptic gospels, the Gospel of Mark was the first to be written, estimated to have been written around AD 70-75.
However, the Gospel of Thomas was written a generation earlier, around AD 50 (great theologians such as Koester, Robinson, Crossan, and Patterson support this theory).
So, with the advent of the Gospel of Thomas, we can now see the original form of Jesus' words and clearly see how the writers of the Synoptic Gospels transformed those words within the context of the concerns of the early church.
“Living Jesus” is not “dead Jesus.”
He has no thoughts of his own death, resurrection, or second coming.
As a living human being, I only talk to living humans about “life.”
The living Jesus is not the protagonist of the Passion drama.

The ceiling of the Gothic cathedral is not high,
Jesus' moral standards were high!!

The Jesus that the Gospel of Thomas tells us is very sensible, profound, and healthy.
There is no mythological embellishment whatsoever, no reliance on miracles or transcendent beings.
The Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas embodies the Asian values ​​of the Asian continent.
It suggests the possibility of East-West communication.
The historical Jesus was a human being who grew up and thought in a culture completely different from the Western civilization we know today.
In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus appears as a fierce practitioner.
There is not a single scene of performing miracles.
He is overflowing with the charisma of an abstract, transcendent practitioner who constantly wanders as a teacher of wisdom.


There, the divinity of Jesus is demonstrated.
Divinity is revealed in Jesus' human life.
Anyone who denies the humanity of Jesus is a Christian heretic.
The humanity of Jesus is depicted in the Gospel of Thomas in very sophisticated language and with a very refined appearance.
Christianity has not survived to this day because of its belief in a transcendent being.
Because Jesus, the first event, presented to humanity a lofty moral standard that no other religion could offer.
It was not the ceilings of Gothic cathedrals that were high, but the standards of Jesus' moral practice that were high.


A monumental commentary on the Gospel of Thomas, Dool's new edition!!
Mobilizing all wisdom discourses from the East and the West!!

This book, “The Gospel of Thomas: The Voice of Jesus,” is a new edition of the three-volume “The Gospel of Thomas: A Korean Translation and Notes” published in 2007, which was newly revised and compiled into one volume by author Dool after 18 years.
This book focuses particularly on deeply explaining the meaning of the words recorded in the Gospel of Thomas.
The dense editing of this volume enhances the commentary on the Gospel text itself, allowing the entire content of the Gospel of Thomas to naturally permeate the reader's mind.


Dool Kim Yong-ok explains the Gospel of Thomas by mobilizing all possible sources related to the Gospel of Thomas.
First, the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) and Paul's letters related to the passages in the Gospel of Thomas are all quoted and provided with detailed annotations so that readers can easily understand them by comparing them with each other.
And, in an open manner, we present to readers all materials that enable them to correctly portray the historical Jesus, including materials from the Mesopotamian civilization of the time, Old Testament materials from the Bible, early Buddhist materials such as the Suttanipata, and materials from Confucianism and Taoism.

Now, the Korean church is shedding its complacency,
We must be born again through the enlightenment of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas!!

Christianity can no longer insist on the eschatological kerygma of the early church, namely the Christology and resurrection doctrine presented by Paul, as its starting point.
To survive in the coming age of complex and multifaceted information, we need to upgrade Christian doctrine by comprehensively understanding the true nature of the Jesus Movement, the original form of Christianity.
In all future theological debates, the Gospel of Thomas has become a crucial “function” that cannot be excluded.
After reading this book on the Gospel of Thomas, we must change our existing ideas about Jesus.
Jesus intended to create the kingdom of heaven on earth, and he created it.
The living Jesus lived on this earth, and the life of that Jesus was heaven.