Christian truth and its underlying storytelling condescend their vital importance within the chapters of Karen L. King’s “The Gospel of Mary of Magdala”. The work strives to tell the unspoken story of Mary in accordance or rather in contradiction to the various iterations of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The Gospel, despite its missing aspects, entails the image of the Christian entity, Mary, as she faces the harsh but rather realistic empathies that a woman of her era would end up tarnishing. Asserting a new set of events that are different and opposing to the well known scriptures. Circulation of “The Gospel of Mary”, due to its countering and rather unappealing nature to the Christian belief, was therefore made forgettable. It illustrated a new version of Jesus’ preaching, dictating there to be no such thing as sin and completely rebutting the actions of the disciples as they are made out to be, at least in the beginning, incapable of truly embracing the teachings of their Savior. Yet, Mary, despite being a woman, was indeed understanding of the gospel and in fact would prove to have slight favoritism from Jesus, which was disapproving of the story’s emphasis on male power as it ended up creating the defining conflict of gospel. The entirety of “The Gospel of Mary of Magdala”, installs an alternative point of view on the classic manuscripts of Christianity. Its evident standing today plays as an ironic tale on society’s desire throughout history to maintain a mainstream set of ideals and literature that would further capture the winners and losers of time. As even the birth of this story has, from the very beginning, withstood a losing argument to explaining the early beginnings of religion and has been shown as so, time and time again. Furthering ignorance of the true events in history as we embed ourselves in a reality that is nitpicked for our convenience.