¿Cristianismo o cristianismos? El caso del evangelio de Judas

Abstract

Today it has gained more followers the theory that various forms of Christianity coexisted in the first centuries and only from IVth century on, Christianity became a unique set, while the other traditions were silenced. Against these theory, Cardinal Grech exposes a particular case: The Gospel of Judas. In this apocryphal Gospel, the real hero is Judas, who replaced Peter and John as Jesus’s closest friends. But this Gospel has not as reference a norma fidei but the gnosis, in whose service it is proclaimed. To see the contrast, the better way is to analyze the case of the church of Ephesus where several theologies and traditions (as the Petrine, Johannine and Pauline) converge, but nevertheless there is only one Christianity which is even prior to the writtings what became later the New Testament.