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The Gospel of Perfection is a lost text from the New Testament apocrypha.The text is mentioned in ancient anti-heretical works by the church fathers.It is thought to be a gnostic text of the Ophites, [1] and is believed by some to be the same as the Gospel of Eve, though the words of Saint Epiphanius implied that they were separate Gospels.
Gospel of Perfection – 4th century, an Ophite poem that is only mentioned once by a single patristic source, Epiphanius, [8] and is referred to once in the 6th century Syriac Infancy Gospel Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians – also called Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit
The Gospel of Eve is an almost entirely lost text from the New Testament apocrypha, which may be the same as the also lost Gospel of Perfection.. The only known content from it are a few quotations by Epiphanius (Panarion, 26), [1] a church father who criticised how the Borborites used it to justify free love, by practicing coitus interruptus and eating semen as a religious act.
In the Farewell Discourse Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to his disciples after his departure, depiction from the Maesta by Duccio, 1308–1311.. The roots of the doctrine of Christian perfection lie in the writings of some early Roman Catholic theologians considered Church Fathers: Irenaeus, [14] Clement of Alexandria, Origen and later Macarius of Egypt and Gregory of Nyssa.
The Gospel of Truth is not titled, but the name for the work comes from the first three words of the text. It may have been written in Greek between 140 and 180 by Valentinian Gnostics (or, as some posit, by Valentinus himself). [2]
Annunciation to Joachim and Anna, fresco by Gaudenzio Ferrari, 1544–45 (detail). The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James) [Note 1] is a second-century infancy gospel telling of the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following.
The perfection of Christ is a principle in Christology which asserts that Christ's human attributes exemplified perfection in every possible sense. [citation needed] Another perspective [citation needed] characterizes Christ's perfection as purely spiritual and moral, while his humanistic traits are subject to flaw, potential, and improvement as part of the current human condition.
Rossano Gospel's paper are vellum parchment, made from the skin of a calf; the thinner parchment is, the higher its value. The large (300 mm by 250 mm) book has text written in a 215 mm square block with two columns of twenty lines each. The prefatory cycle of illustrations is also on purple dyed parchment.