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The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow in reputation and influence over the past two decades. It is now widely re...more

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Published September 19th 1989 by Vintage (first published 1979)

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Mar 24, 2012 William rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 20-ce, christianity, history, nonfiction, us, religion, gnosticism

The so-called apocryphal gospels, discovered by a farmer in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, are here explained in the context of late second-century Church history. Gnostic (gnosis, Gk: knowledge) Christians did not believe that human intermediaries (priests, etc.) were necessary for an individual to find God. For the gnostics, enlightenment was an entirely inward and self-determined process. Gnostic Christians believed that Jesus was not divine but an ordinary man with an extraordinary mess...more The so-called apocryphal gospels, discovered by a farmer in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, are here explained in the context of late second-century Church history. Gnostic (gnosis, Gk: knowledge) Christians did not believe that human intermediaries (priests, etc.) were necessary for an individual to find God. For the gnostics, enlightenment was an entirely inward and self-determined process. Gnostic Christians believed that Jesus was not divine but an ordinary man with an extraordinary message. They did not believe in the resurrection of the flesh. They did not believe in the eucharist nor did they have any eschatalogical beliefs. They believed in a higher supreme god and a lower creator god, Yahweh, the Jewish god, who maliciously made man in his image and demanded to be worshipped by him. They believed that "secret wisdom" was handed down to the Apostles by Jesus, esoteric knowledge which was not vouchsafed to ordinary believers but only to mature ones. The gnostics believed that through their inner way of knowing God that they were then able to exceed the knowledge of the Apostles. There is language in the New Testament to support this idea of Jesus's secret wisdom. For the masses Jesus had only parables, exoteric knowledge appropriate to the less spiritually advanced. Late in the book some of the techniques for achieving gnosis are reviewed and they are surprisingly close to those used by Buddhists. Though Buddhists are nontheistic what they and the gnostics do has uncanny similarities. Elaine Pagels shows us that there was no early Christian golden age. That is to say, an age that had uniform teachings accepted by all. It was instead far more diverse than it is today and highly contentious. Moreover, the Church could have developed radically differently if some of these writings had been accepted, instead of being purged, as they were, so that someone, perhaps a monk belonging to a monastery near Nag Hammadi, buried them in a jar under the sand 1,600 years ago. I found the book fascinating and fun to read. I recommend it highly, as I do Pagels's Adam, Eve and the Serpent, The Origin of Satan, and Beyond Belief.(less)

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Nov 13, 2011 Erik Graff rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: students of early Christianity

Recommended to Erik by: Elaine Pagels

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For over four years I occupied one of the cheapest singles in Union Theological Seminary's Hastings Hall. The room had been used for guests and, so, was larger than any other single, a wall having been apparently torn out. Consequently, it was large enough to accomodate both myself and my girlfriend, Janny, after she transferred from Grinnell to Barnard College a couple of blocks away south on Broadway.

I'd gone to Grinnell also, having done my thesis there on the subject of scholarly theories ab...more For over four years I occupied one of the cheapest singles in Union Theological Seminary's Hastings Hall. The room had been used for guests and, so, was larger than any other single, a wall having been apparently torn out. Consequently, it was large enough to accomodate both myself and my girlfriend, Janny, after she transferred from Grinnell to Barnard College a couple of blocks away south on Broadway.

I'd gone to Grinnell also, having done my thesis there on the subject of scholarly theories about the origins of Gnosticism. Consequently, I was excited to learn that one of Janny's religion professors was Elaine Pagels, the author whose analysis of the Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis had impressed me years before. Thanks to Janny's position in the department, I was invited along to a party at the Pagels' apartment, having the opportunity to meet the woman and her husband, the physicist, personally.

Later, when Pagels came to teach a course on Genesis at Union, I signed up. Although I did the reading and went to the classes, Pagels generously allowed me to do an unrelated term paper, "On the Procession of the Heresiarchs of Gnosis" which was a little encyclopaedia of all references to gnostic teachers and teachings in the patristic literature. Basically, she had afforded me the opportunity to read all of the patristic literature of the first several centuries of the Christian era, a body of material which would have been too boring to read seriously if I hadn't done it with the close attention to the texts which the project required.

At the time of graduation from seminary, her The Gnostic Gospels appeared--too late to read it then and, besides, I was deeply immersed in a thesis on Kant and Jung. The reading of it had to wait for some months. Of course, by this point, I was a bit of a lay expert and the book, after all, was an introductory text. Consequently, I read it critically, as a take on the dubious phenomenon. What distinguished it from such earlier works as Hans Jonas', other than her access to more recently available holographs, was its sociological orientation and emphasis on the role of women, both important additions to the tendencies of earlier scholarship.(less)

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Dec 15, 2007 Fredstrong rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Nag Hammadi texts, containing the Gnostic Gospels, were found in Egypt in 1945. These codices were compiled in the 4th century AD, but the gospels themselves date to the 2nd century AD. The Gnostic teachings are quite different from those of the orthodoxy. The Gnostics had an egalitarian approach to the sexes. Sex itself was held a sacrament, and Jesus himself had a consort in Mary Magdalene. All this points to one of the most fundamental differences of Gnosticism to the Orthodox Christianit...more

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Oct 06, 2007 Eva rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who think the bible isn't the last word on Christianity

Shelves: existential-religious

This book is a classic. It describes, catalogues, quotes, and interprets portions of the secret gnostic gospels which were ordered destroyed in the 4th century after Christ. How, then, did we gain access to them? Some crafty monk shoved bits and pieces of papyrus into a clay jar and buried it, like a time capsule, for 20th century archeologists to discover and historians to argue about for another 16 centuries.

What do the gnostic gospels disclose? Well, read if you want the full story, but let's...more

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May 22, 2007 Christine Giraud rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: any one interested in theology

This book is about how, after JC's death, there was a struggle between heretic believers- those who believed in personal enlightenment and shunned a church hierarchy- and the disciple of John's beievers- patriarchal, hierarchal, congregational- and why John's side won. GG is based on the gnostic gospels which were discovered in urns buried in a cave in Egypt 1950. They had likely been suppressed by the dominant faction.

It does a good job describing how present-day Christianity evolved and, in a...more

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Sep 04, 2011 Katie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: medieval, theology, religious-history, intellectual-history, early-christianity, history

This is a really fascinating book, and a great introduction to Gnosticism. It's learned, it places theological ideas in a socio-political context, and it's enjoyable to read. Pagel's biggest success is in the way she ties the controversy between gnostic and orthodox ideas into contemporary social and political issues and uses them to explain why orthodox ideas ultimately won out. It paints a picture where orthodox Christianity isn't the camp that won because it's ideas were any 'truer,' but beca...more

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Jan 03, 2009 Dave rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction-read

I found the book fascinating. The description of the discovery and coming to light of the Nag Hammadi library, a collection of Gnostic writings including gospels, apocalypses, and other early Christian/Gnostic books called apocryphal that did not make it into the New Testament because of the heretical views expressed. The narrative shows the extreme division among early Christian groups and the struggle between ecclesiastical authority (orthodoxy) and individual conscience (the various heterodox...more

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Jan 02, 2009 Pete daPixie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-jesus

One of the few Christian writers I can enjoy reading.

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Aug 02, 2011 Jody Mena added it

Fascinating and thought provoking. This is a very thorough historical examination of the conflict between the orthodox and gnostic perspectives of Christianity in its first centuries, based on various scriptures (canonical and apocryphal) as well as the writings of religious scholars and historians from that time. At the end, the author disclaims that she doesn't necessarily agree with or 'side' with a gnostic view of Christian philosophy. More's the pity - she demonstrated quite well, in my opi...more

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Jan 10, 2009 Bruce rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: gnosticisim-and-early-christian-his, history, religion

The best overview of the history and meaning of the gnostic gospels. Pagels does a fine job in outlining the amazing history of the finding of these manuscripts in a jar by an Arab shepherd in the late 40's, and the near miraculous way they were saved from destruction. It is heartbreaking to consider that some were used by his mother to start fires, what work may have been lost there.

These variant views of Christianity were sidetracked by the early Christian fathers who determined which of the...more

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Apr 29, 2013 Lage von Dissen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Prior to the proto-orthodox movement, there were several Christian sects that co-existed during the first couple centuries of the common era. These varied Christian views differed greatly in terms of their doctrine, as well as some fundamental issues like how they viewed God, Jesus, and what they thought of as their ultimate purpose or goal in life. Concepts that most modern day Christians consider universal or consider to be basic tenets of Christianity were not so common or universal when Chri...more Prior to the proto-orthodox movement, there were several Christian sects that co-existed during the first couple centuries of the common era. These varied Christian views differed greatly in terms of their doctrine, as well as some fundamental issues like how they viewed God, Jesus, and what they thought of as their ultimate purpose or goal in life. Concepts that most modern day Christians consider universal or consider to be basic tenets of Christianity were not so common or universal when Christianity was first developing. The Gnostic Gospels provide a supplement to the various New Testament "apocrypha" or any books that weren't included in the canon of scripture. The fact of the matter is, the New Testament canon was formed specifically by and for the proto-orthodox sect, and so certain books were selected which fit this doctrine, and all other early Christian writings were left out, destroyed, etc. I think that most Christians fail to understand this, that is, that what many assume to be the complete word of God is actually just a man-made selection of writings from one particular Christian sect, with all the others deemed "heretical" and eventually forgotten about. When we see that these other Gnostic writings clash with certain ideas and concepts present in those books that "made it" into the canon, it's not surprising to learn that great efforts were taken to remove these other "heretical" writings from circulation. Gnostics called the "orthodox" Christians "heretical" and vice versa. However, one of those sects had a much bigger following with more political power than the other, and it was inevitably the one that won the "battle of the sects" as I call it. Both have writings apparently inspired by God in some way, and yet most people don't know of these Gnostic writings, nor of the doctrinal diversity in the early Christian community. It strikes me as rather important for people to know about these other writings and then make a more informed decision about their theological (or historical critical) interpretation.(less)

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Jun 24, 2011 Franz rated it 4 of 5 stars

Not only describes and interprets the ancient gnostic scrolls buried at Nag Hammadi in Egypt for over 1600 years, Pagel also explains why the orthodox Christianity overcame gnostic versions of Christianity. In a nutshell, the organization, order, and greater ease of understanding of the orthodox version of Christ's teachings for the bulk of the people helped orthodox Christianity to trump the decentralized structure and esoteric interpretation of Christ's teachings as understood by the gnostics....more

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Mar 29, 2011 Miles Zarathustra rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you're gullible enough to buy the idea that the Bible is infallible, this book is not for you.

If you're feeling like there has got to be more to the story that what you are told, this book is an wonderful starting place. Elaine Pagels is concise and lively in style, and her scholarship is excellent. Others have filled in with greater bulk and more voluminous scholarship, but this book (and the other I have read) get straight to the point. Her books are short and a good read.

The title refers t...more

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Jan 15, 2010 Barnaby Thieme rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: christianity, religion-mythology, gnosticism

This brief introduction to the Gnostic scriptures discovered at Nag Hammadi is instantly recognizable as a classic. It is beautifully written, deeply informative, and utterly fascinating. Pagels presents the Gnostics as representing various competing doctrines in the charged religious landscape of the first few centuries of the first millennium, competing against groups that would eventually ascend as canonical and orthodox representatives of the catholic church of Christ.

Pagels is clearly inte...more This brief introduction to the Gnostic scriptures discovered at Nag Hammadi is instantly recognizable as a classic. It is beautifully written, deeply informative, and utterly fascinating. Pagels presents the Gnostics as representing various competing doctrines in the charged religious landscape of the first few centuries of the first millennium, competing against groups that would eventually ascend as canonical and orthodox representatives of the catholic church of Christ.

Pagels is clearly interested in historicizing the process of canon formation as a way of opening contemporary Christians to the possibilities of bringing modern liberal sensibilities to bear on the religious symbology of Christianity. She argues that the Christian church is not intrinsically opposed to an equal role for women and feminine images of the divine. Nor is it closed to placing primary emphasis on personal creative insight and experience as the basis for faith, as opposed to the reliance on dogma and orthodox liturgy. She finds considerable and persuasive historical evidence for her claims by establishing these as core doctrines of the Gnostics, who would eventually be exiled as heretics from the belief space of Christian dogmatics.

Pagels persuasively depicts the Gnostic scriptures as akin to contemporary depth analysis or mystical traditions such as Buddhism in their sensibility, evoking the well-known Gospels of Thomas and Philip to portray Jesus as a spiritual teacher who encouraged his disciples to look to their own divinity instead of deifying him.

Pagels argues that many of the core doctrines of the Nicene Creed evolved in part as a specific attempt to exclude Gnostic scripture from the canon, including the emphasis placed on the primacy of the church of the Apostolic succession as the vehicle of redemption over and above personal experience.

In one fascinating and moving chapter Pagels argues that the image of the crucifixion gained its central position in the first two centuries of the first millennium as a psychological projection and hypostasis of the terrors the early Christians felt at the very real danger they would themselves have to undergo torment and death at the hands of the Romans. The Gnostics faced less danger than their orthodox brethren and in their accounts the crucifixion plays a different role -- it serves as an illustration of the bodily suffering of Christ that left his spiritual being undisturbed. One can easily understand how early Church leaders who watched their own beloved leaders torn apart by animals and burned as torches in the gardens of Nero would be incensed by the suggestion that martyrdom in the model of Christ was anything less than an absolute sign of redemption.

Pagels could have -- and I would go so far as to say "should have" -- written a parallel chapter on the evolution of the fever-dream cosmology of the Gnostics as a parallel hypostasization of their own fears of persecution. Indeed, the most striking omission from the book is a meaningful consideration of this central aspect of Gnosticism -- its weird and paranoid view of a universe created by an insane God and governed by malevolent overlords. "Ialdabaoth" receives but one brief entry in the book's index, and "Archon" receives no mention at all. What is one to make of this?

The Gnosticism that Pagels represents has clearly been sanitized for popular consumption, with its many bizarre and problematic doctrines minimized, explained symbolically, or ignored altogether. This is rather unfortunate. Despite this glaring weakness, this book will undoubtedly serve as the standard brief introduction to the doctrines espoused in the Nag Hammadi library and should be considered essential reading for those interested in mystical traditions or the evolution of early Christian doctrine. Very highly recommended. (less)

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Aug 08, 2009 Robert Cooper rated it 4 of 5 stars

During the first and second centuries, when Christians were still a persecuted minority and stuggling to organize themselves, a zillion sects duked it out ideologically, ginning out a plethora of interpretations of what Christianity actually signified. The Catholic Church as we know it today eventually won out and, after gaining secular as well as religious power when the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in the fourth century, began vigorously persecuting dissident sects as heresie...more

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Jun 21, 2009 Steven Peterson rated it 4 of 5 stars

A telling line that helps close out the book (page 147): "It is the winners who write history--their way." In December, 1945, an Arab peasant discovered ancient documents near the town of Nag Hammadi. These represent 52 texts of Gnostic works, such as the "Gospel of Thomas," the "Gospel of Philip," the "Gospel of Truth," and so on. The actual works were dated at 350-400 AD, with the likelihood that they were authored by 120-150 AD.

Elaine Pagels does a very nice job of describing the historical...more

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Jun 20, 2009 Courtney rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book analyzes gospels discovered in 1945 in Nag Hammadi and through them explores the diversity of Christian beliefs in the years after Christ's death and how politics determined the shape the church has taken. To greatly simplify: The gnostics were Christians who placed more emphasis on the spirit and metaphor of Christ's story and message and less on literal interpretations of resurrection and virgin birth and such. They counseled looking inward and knowing oneself in order to find God. A...more

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May 08, 2009 Davidmcdonnell rated it 1 of 5 stars

I stopped one-fifth into this book. Elaine Pagels, a PHD in religious studies in from Harvard, gives an mildly interesting back story to the discovery of the "gnostic" gospels of Nag Hammadi. The book is heavy on judgements/opinions and light on facts/justifications. One more interested in getting someone's opinions concerning these actual historical documents may find this book interesting. I was hoping for a more fact-based explanation and dissertation on these gospels, allowing me to form my...more

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Jul 11, 2011 Jason rated it 3 of 5 stars

While this is a decent overview of the findings at Nag Hammadi in general, there are also an awful lot of exaggerated caricatures of 'orthodox Christianity' in here. Elaine seems to conflate ancient orthodoxy with modern Catholicism, which is a huge mistake. Eastern Orthodoxy is much closer (if not the same?) to ancient orthodoxy, and the veracity of many of her claims against the latter don't hold up from a closer look at the theology of the former.

For example, she says the ancient orthodox Chu...more

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Dec 25, 2010 Nalin Ratnayake rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: philosophy-metaphysics

A well-researched exploration of the differences between the original diversity of thought surrounding the teachings and sayings of Jesus, and what became the institution of mainline Christianity. I very much appreciated the author's care in investigating beyond just the differences between gnostic and catholic (in which I include post-Reformation Christianity, because in the broader sense of early Christian thought they really are not that different). She also details the political motivations...more

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Nov 28, 2011 Bob Nichols rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Pagels discusses the tension between orthodox Christianity that emphasized the need for authoritative supervision over the word of God, and the alternative gnostic voices that relied on direct communication with the divine. Over time, the gnostic tradition lost out to orthodoxy, leading to the Christianity of today that is under the direction of popes, priests, deacons, ministers, etc. that mediate relationships with the divine world.

In the controversy between the two traditions over whether the...more

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May 14, 2011 Jordan Forster rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: religion, non-fiction

Pagel's offers a highly readable introduction to the Gnostic Gospels focussing on the main points of difference between this expression of Christianity and the historical orthodoxy. Pagel's emphasis is on the social and political advantages of the orthodoxy over the estoteric, and she concludes, somewhat truistically, that the orthodox dominated because it better suited the needs of believers in the early centuries of the Christian movement. Pagel argues that the political and social unity offer...more

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Aug 15, 2012 Siew Ee rated it 3 of 5 stars

A very intriguing and insightful read on the similarities and differences between gnostic and orthodox Christians of the early Christian movement. The book presented a very different view of the origins of Christianity from what I used to know.

What made the most impact on me was the documentation that showed some parallels between the Gnostic movement and Buddhism. To begin with, the word Gnostic comes from the Greek word “gnosis” meaning “knowledge”, which is more or less equated to “enlightenm...more

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Mar 12, 2009 Junio rated it 3 of 5 stars

The Matrix made me think that Gnosticism was going to be a lot cooler. Sure it's different than Orthodox Christianity, but I thought there was going to be a lot more "It's us against the world, and the world we see isn't even the world we're fighting." So Gnostic Christians thought that an inner spiritual search was important. They didn't necessarily believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ. They thought that church was secondary to the spiritual quest for enlightenment. But 1800 years later...more

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Mar 06, 2009 Caleb rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction

Huh. I didn't realize this was a 20-year-old book until I just now looked it up on Good Reads. So I suppose the scholarship could be somewaht out of date, although given that it examines texts from the first few centuries, I suppose 20 years isn't really such a long time that too much would have changed.

Anyway, Pagels offers an extremely breif (150-ish page) but rather thorough general introduction to the gnostic texts discovered at Nag Hamadi in the middle of the last century, and paints a rath...more

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Jun 06, 2012 Sharon Holford rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm curious. She writes clearly - makes this history very interesting.

I have not been feeling well, so I had a hard time concentrating on what I was reading. She makes it easy to understand her subject tho, so I got a good bit out of it. This book expounds on the beginning of the Christian church. They couldn't even get it right just a hundred years or so after the time of Jesus - so much arguing and wrangling - politics
again rears it's ugly head. I've been ignorant of all the extra gospels t...more

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Nov 01, 2009 Nikki rated it 4 of 5 stars

Pagels is an amazing scholar of the early Christian era. I initially thought that this book was going to be a detailed account of the gnostic gospel texts, but it was really more about why the early Christian fathers chose the books they did to be included in the cannon of scriptures. The gnostic gospel text, Pagels argues, were excluded and deemed heretical because they did not support the establishment of an all-powerful church. A lot of Christians, I'm sure, would have problems with much of w...more

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Nov 27, 2011 Mike rated it 5 of 5 stars

Whenever the church fathers railed against false teachers and heretics, more often than not they were referring to the Gnostics who, rather than submitting to hierarchical authority for salvation, sought God by turning in inward. According to the Gospel of Thomas, a sacred text of the Gnostics, “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” This is very threatening stuff to t...more

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Jun 25, 2011 Jeff Holt rated it 5 of 5 stars

So far, this is the most lucid study of the Gnostic Gospels that I have come across. I have previouly read "The Gospel of Mary" which included "The Gospel of Thomas" and the scholar of that book was so biased that she would make statements such as "Now we know that..." about Mary Magdalene. I don't care for that sort of editorial leading. Pagels is far more tentative and interested in presenting all of the facts about the subject. Having already read her wonderful "The Origin of Satan," I though...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Kendra rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: soul-study, thought-provoking, history-religion

This is a wonderful introduction to the Gnostic Gospels. While it doesn't get into heavy detail, it displays many differing viewpoints in early Christianity that seem even more different than they are today (which is really saying something- people believe so many different, opposing things and every one thinks they are right!). She explains the history behind the thoughts, driving the decisions made.

There are a lot of great excerpts from historical documents and the gnostic gospels, so it feel...more

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