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 ...
Why do people have faith in what they cannot see? Author Elaine Pagels explores the concept of religious belief, and shares her own experience with finding faith in the face of tragedy, in her new ...
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 ...
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 ...
Elaine Pagels, professor of religion and bestselling author, was awarded the National Humanities Medal at Thursday noon by President Barack Obama. “I was very surprised,” Pagels said. “I was ...
Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will deliver the 2013 James Baldwin Lecture "Art, Music and Politics in the Book of Revelation," at ...
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 ...
A rare lung disease killed Elaine Pagels’ 6-year-old son, and then about a year later her husband fell to his death while mountain climbing. After that Job-like run of tragedies, no one would have ...
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