The Gnostic Gospels

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¦ "Croundbeaking. . . . The first direct look at texts JmSj^^H^ \| termed heretical by early church fathers."
JmB^' ^ —The Christian Science Monitor
n 1945 ^^ Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, the sacred - . books of one of the earliest Christian sects.
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' I This now-classsic landmark study draws on those
texts to illuminate the world of the first Christians and to examine the different ways in which both Gnostics and the orthodox constructed God, Christ, and the Church. Did Jesus literally rise from the dead? Was there only one God, and could He be both Father and Mother? Whose version of Christianity came down to us and why did it prevail? Brilliant, provocative, and stunning in its implications. The Gnostic Gospels is a radical yet accessible reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.
"The first major and eminently readable book on Gnosticism... Tovább

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Religion
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
¦ "Croundbeaking. . . . The first direct look at texts JmSj^^H^ \| termed heretical by early church fathers."
JmB^' ^ —The Christian Science Monitor
n 1945 ^^ Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, the sacred - . books of one of the earliest Christian sects.
\f I
' I This now-classsic landmark study draws on those
texts to illuminate the world of the first Christians and to examine the different ways in which both Gnostics and the orthodox constructed God, Christ, and the Church. Did Jesus literally rise from the dead? Was there only one God, and could He be both Father and Mother? Whose version of Christianity came down to us and why did it prevail? Brilliant, provocative, and stunning in its implications. The Gnostic Gospels is a radical yet accessible reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.
"The first major and eminently readable book on Gnosticism benefiting from the discovery in 1945 of Gnostic Christian texts at Nag Hammandi in Egypt." —The New York Times Book Review '
"[Pagels] writes with the instincts of a novelist, the skill of a scholar, and the ability to sort out significances that many writers lack."
—Chicago Tribune
"Pagels sets forth [Gnosticism's] principles with a concise clarity. . . . Her
evocation of the world of the church fathers is a marvel." —The Boston Globe Vissza