Bøger af Elaine Pagels

As discussed in The Da Vinci Code... Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus.

La referencia indiscutible sobre los evangelios gnósticos.Este libro fue distinguido en Estados Unidos con el premio del National Book Critics Circle y con el National Book Award y, desde entonces, se ha convertido en obra de referencia indiscutible sobre los evangelios gnósticos. En él, la profesora Pagels revela las numerosas discrepancias que separaban a los cristianos primitivos en torno a los hechos mismos de la vida de Cristo, el sentido de sus enseñanzas o a la forma que debía adoptar su Iglesia, y describe las doctrinas gnósticas que niegan la resurrección de Cristo y rechazan la autoridad sacerdotal, explicando por qué y cómo la ortodoxia que finalmente se impuso declaró heréticos a los gnósticos y trató de eliminar todos los textos que contenían sus doctrinas. Estos evangelios gnósticos, sorprendentes y reveladores, nos obligan a reconsiderar profundamente la imagen establecida de los orígenes y el significado del cristianismo.

The instant New York Times bestseller interpreting the controversial long-lost gospel The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas is a source of fascination for biblical scholars and lay Christians alike. Now two leading experts on the Gnostic gospels tackle the important questions posed by its discovery, including: How could any Christian imagine Judas to be Jesus' favorite? And what kind of vision of God does the author offer? Working from Karen L. King's brilliant new translation, Elaine Pagels and King provide the context necessary for considering its meaning. Reading Judas plunges into the heart of Christianity itself and will stand as the definitive look at the gospel for years to come.

Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. How did the early Christians come to believe that sex was inherently sinful? When did the Fall of Adam become synonymous with the fall of humanity? What turned Christianity from a dissident sect that championed the integrity of the individual and the idea of free will into the bulwark of a new imperial order-with the central belief that human beings cannot not choose to sin? In this provocative masterpiece of historical scholarship Elaine Pagels re-creates the controversies that racked the early church as it confronted the riddles of sexuality, freedom, and sin as embodied in the story of Genesis. And she shows how what was once heresy came to shape our own attitudes toward the body and the soul.

The essays in this book derive from the Engelsberg Seminar of 2014, and investigate the role which religion plays in society today and in the past. They also explore religion as a phenomenon in relation to the human condition and how it manifests itself as an individual experience. In order to understand ourselves, do we need to understand religion?

As discussed in The Da Vinci Code... Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus.In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in an earthenware jar buried in the Egyptian desert.