Magdalene, Judas and Relics' Cloning—Do Early Christian Apocrypha and Modern Bio-Ethics Challenge Christianity?

Abstract

This article examines the dogmatic-theological and ethical problems put forward in a number of recent bestselling thrillers of which the intrigues are build around Early Christian Apocrypha or/and modern bio-ethics. The discovery and publication of the Gospel of Judas has—in its turn—contributed to and accentuated some of these problems. A number of questions are posed in this article which sharpen the problems, and answers to the questions are also suggested.