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A "Doubting Thomas" is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus' crucifixion wounds.
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Thomas is martyred (background) by order of an Indian monarch (foreground) The Acts of Thomas connects Thomas the apostle's Indian ministry with two kings. [4] According to one of the legends in the Acts, Thomas was at first reluctant to accept this mission, but the Lord appeared to him in a night vision and said, “Fear not, Thomas. Go away ...
Thomasine is a name given to a Syrian Christian group that originated in the first or the second century, who especially revered the apostle Thomas and some scholars speculate to have written the gospel of Thomas. [1] [2] [3] The group was said to have held esoteric, mystical, and ascetic ideas. [1] [4] Some have associated them with the proto ...
The Gospel of John is the only canonical one that gives Thomas the Apostle a dramatic role and spoken part, and Thomas is the only character therein described as being apistos (' unbelieving '), despite the failings of virtually all the Johannine characters to live up to the author's standards of belief.
St. Thomas' Church (disambiguation), multiple churches with the name St Thomas the Apostle College , a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys in Nunhead, London. St. Thomas the Apostle Minor Seminary , a preparatory seminary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad in Pakistan
Saint Thomas the Apostle is a 1608–1614 painting of Thomas the Apostle by El Greco, now in the Museo del Prado. [1]It originally formed part of a series of works produced by the artist for the parish church in Almadrones, Spain, a series which represented a set of variants on a set of paintings of the apostles (or Apostolate) for Toledo Cathedral.