Discussion of Gnosticism at a recent gathering of local clergy generated a comment from one pastor that perhaps Christian scriptures should be kept in a loose-leaf binder so we can add and remove ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: BIBLICAL HISTORY Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels (Viking) The remarkable thing about the ...

That back story is told well and concisely by Elaine Pagels in her new book, “Revelations,’’ which carries the apt subtitle, “Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation.’’ She begins on ...

Princeton religious scholar Elaine Pagels puts the New Testament's last book in historical context. Book Of Revelation: 'Visions, Prophecy And Politics' The Book of Revelation, the final book of the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Elaine Pagels, best-selling author of books including "The Gnostic Gospels" and "Revelations: Visions, Prophecy and Politics in the Book of Revelation," will speak in Cleveland in ...

The Bible, as all good Christians know, boasts “a Hollywood ending,” said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. The Book of Revelation, written in the late 1st century by a Jewish mystic who had accepted ...

How well should a historian write? It’s difficult to disagree with George Orwell, who said any exemplary book should be not only an intellectual but “also an aesthetic experience.” Elaine Pagels, a ...

For some 2,000 years, the end of the world has been to preachers what a Canadian girlfriend is to lonely adolescent boys: They keep talking about it, but it never shows up. As Elaine Pagels ...

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 ...