Acclaimed scholar Elaine Pagels is known for her work on the Gnostic Gospels and the origins of Christianity. Now in a beautiful, raw memoir she shows how that academic work was born out of loss and ...
Elaine Pagels has made a career out of rewriting Christian history. Her first book, the 1979 best seller The Gnostic Gospels, reappraised Christian documents long considered heretical. In the books ...
In this majestic new book, Pagels (The Gnostic Gospels) ranges panoramically over the history of early Christianity, demonstrating the religion's initial tremendous diversity and its narrowing to ...
The 52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt include 'secret' gospels poems and myths attributing to Jesus sayings and beliefs which are very different from the New Testament. Scholar Elaine Pagels ...
Pagels’ 1989 book The Gnostic Gospels was the first to offer a thorough and widely accessible account of a set of writings found in Egypt in 1945 that date back as early the second century and offer a ...
The Gnostic gospels are writings by early "Christian" Gnostics. After the first century of Christianity, two primary divisions developed - the orthodox and the Gnostics.
Elaine Pagels, a best-selling author and religion scholar at Princeton University, will be the featured speaker during the "Insights: A Series of Lectures and Talks" program today at Trinity Episcopal ...
Post and Courier: Review: Historian Elaine Pagels shares personal experience of religion
WHY RELIGION? A Personal Story. By Elaine Pagels. Ecco. 235 Pages. $27.99. On a bright winter morning, Elaine Pagels ducked into the vestibule of the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York to warm up ...