Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, and Princeton University’s Papers of Thomas Jefferson have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities ...
Plenty, says Princeton University professor, who will discuss the devil’s role in human history at CU Boulder Elaine Pagels, a scholar who argues that early Christians invented the devil, will discuss ...
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 ...
Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine professor of religion at Princeton University and winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Gnostic Gospels ...
Almost 30 years ago, religion scholar and Princeton professor Elaine Pagels introduced the world to the Gnostic Gospels in her book by that title. These were intriguing early Christian writings that ...
Oh, we may think we have answers, and possibly we do - for that moment. Or, we keep seeking, asking why. Why believe? Few people are better to answer that question on a profound and personal level ...
When a colleague of Princeton professor of religion Elaine Pagels told her that some websites refer to her as “Elaine Pagan,” the moniker didn’t bother her. A major point of her work, she says, is the ...
On a Zoom call from her neat, book-lined home office in Princeton, New Jersey, Elaine Pagels explains how her latest book, “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus,” differs from her ...
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 ...