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	Elaine Pagels Relationships
		Elaine does not appear to be an intensely emotional or sentimental person, and she is often unaware of her own or other people's deeper feelings and emotional needs.
		Elaine Pagels is able to attract and influence others because she is so pleasant and so sincere in her approach.
		Elaine Pagels has a great rapport with the opposite sex, and love relationships, romance, and passion are absolutely vital to her well-being.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Elaine_Pagels.asp (572 words)

	Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels
		Pagels' infant son was diagnosed with fatal pulmonary hypertension, her pursuit of knowledge about who Jesus really was has become a question of personal urgency for her.
		Pagels compares Thomas’s gospel (which claims to give Jesus’ secret teaching, and indicates an affinity with the Kabbalah) with the canonic texts to show how the early Church chose to include some gospels and exclude others from the collection we know as the New Testament – and why.
		Pagels feels that if the Gospel of Thomas were included in the New Testament instead of that of John, or even if it were included along with John, the development of Christianity would have been quite different.
	southerncrossreview.org /29/pagels.htm (1327 words)

	elaine pagels - origins of satan
		In pristine and swift-reading prose, Pagels delineates an early, if unconscious, decision the hierarchy of the church made to address the world in terms of a "cosmic struggle" between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
		Pagels is especially brilliant in her writing about early apologists and forgers of church doctrine such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origen, and Tertullian.
		Pagels is no ground breaker in her chapters on the first and second centuries of this millennium.
	www.2think.org /pagels.shtml (766 words)

	'Gnostic Gospels' author to speak April 26 in Lawrence
		Elaine Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University and author of books that include "The Gnostic Gospels," "Adam, Eve and the Serpent" and "The Origin of Satan," will present the annual University of Kansas Religious Studies Lecture at 7 p.m.
		Pagels later published "Adam, Eve and the Serpent" (1988), an exploration of the Genesis creation stories and their role in the development of sexual attitudes in the Christian West.
		Elaine Pagels' reflections on her losses culminated with the publication of "The Origin of Satan" in 1995.
	www.news.ku.edu /2001/01N/AprNews/Apr16/pagels.html (538 words)

	Elaine Pagels Relationships: Her Growth and Expansion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Elaine Pagels has a knack for breaking down feelings of alienation and she makes others feel included and a part of group activities.
		Elaine Pagels aims high and has an innate confidence and trust both in her own abilities and in life in general, which enables Elaine to go far.
		Elaine Pagels wants to do something big with her life, and she attracts the support she needs to do so, for her aims are not solely for her own personal benefit.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Elaine_Pagels_07.asp (258 words)

	Amazon.ca: Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Books: Elaine Pagels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pagels writes that, during the first four centuries of the common era, there were many different schools of thought about religion, almost as many as there are in the contemporary American setting that she writes.
		Elaine Pagels' knowledge of the development of Christianity during its first four centuries is very much in evidence in ADAM, EVE AND THE SERPENT as she describes the evolution of diverse interpretations of the Genesis creation stories held by succeeding generations of the new sect.
		Elaine Pagels writes with clarity and she has the ability to make difficult material seem understandable to those of us who are not academics.
	www.amazon.ca /Adam-Eve-Serpent-Elaine-Pagels/dp/0679722327 (2549 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Society & Community. Elaine Pagels \| PBS
		Biblical scholar and author Elaine Pagels talked with Bill Moyers about her new book, BEYOND BELIEF: THE SECRET GOSPEL OF THOMAS, which explores the discussion and debate between followers of Jesus illustrated in the gospels of Thomas and John.
		Pagels and Moyers take this statement as a starting point for a wide-ranging discussion of the role of faith in 21st-Century America, and the relationship between faith and grief.
		Elaine Pagels is the author of numerous articles and five books and is well known for her work in translating the Nag Hammadi Library, translations which contradicted the image of the early Christian Church as a unified movement.
	www.pbs.org /now/society/pagels.html (285 words)

	Powell's Books - Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels
		Elaine Pagels, one of the world’s most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels, now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first century.
		When her infant son was diagnosed with fatal pulmonary hypertension, Elaine Pagels’s spiritual and intellectual quest took on a new urgency, leading her to explore historical and archeological sources and to investigate what Jesus and his teachings meant to his followers before the invention of doctrine–and before the invention of Christianity as we know it.
		Elaine Pagels calls for a generosity of mind as she takes us into the world of those early Christian texts that were left behind but now are with us.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=92-140007908x-0 (922 words)

	disinformation \| elaine pagels and the neuro-politics of paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pagels provocatively contended that institutionalized Christianity had emerged from personality-driven cliques and petty infighting, and that Western history might have been radically different if Gnostic texts dating from 200 AD had been included in the Christian canon.
		Pagels' uncovering of anti-Semitism's theological roots and the memetic mutation of the Gospel of Love (Agape) into irrational hatred was again attacked by Traditionalists, but well received by a public who still remembered the shadowy specter of the Inquisition and genocidal Crusades.
		Heinz Pagels (1939-1988) was an esteemed quantum physicist and husband of Elaine Pagels.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id310/pg1 (1117 words)

	Amazon.de: The Gnostic Gospels: English Books: Elaine Pagels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pagels then develops a political idea and structure to her analysis of the way church orthodoxy continued away from and in deliberate, direct opposition to gnostic teachings.
		Elaine Pagels allowd me to finally, comfortably see Christ the way one would look at an artist like Dizzy Gillespie, in a world where all the money and power comes from playing three chords in a rock band and nothing else.
		Pagels postulates that mounting alienation from the world in which the individuals lived combined with a longing for a miraculous salvation as an escape from the constraints of political and social existence of the time, gave the necessary strength and power to create the burgeoning orthodox Christian church.
	www.amazon.de /Gnostic-Gospels-Elaine-Pagels/dp/0394502787 (2646 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PROFILE . Elaine Pagels . October 10, 2003 \| PBS
		Pagels found herself outside the Church of the Heavenly Rest, an Episcopal church in Manhattan, doubting its orthodoxy, needing its sustenance.
		PAGELS: At the time, I think it was absolutely essential for the survival of the movement, because it was so much threatened by persecution and by complete scattering.
		PAGELS: The Gospel of John speaks of Jesus as the "light of the world," the "Divine One" who comes into the world to rescue the human race from sin and darkness, and says, "if you believe in him, you can be saved.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week706/profile.html (1544 words)

	ELAINE PAGELS - THE ORIGIN OF SATAN
		(I read this book more than six months before writing this review so the details are a bit foggy.) Pagels charts the evolution of the Jewish and Christian concept of evil from Old Testament times to the present day (although the majority of the book deals with the New Testament era).
		She explains how 'Satan' didn't always refer to an evil being but was initially used to represent an obstacle.
		Similar to Karen Armstrong's work, I found Pagels to be an excellent scholar who writes quite well on very difficult topics.
	www.2think.org /hii/pagels.shtml (247 words)

	Amazon.com: The Gnostic Gospels: Books: Elaine Pagels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I should note that Pagels does not attempt to summarize or examine in detail the Gnostic Gospels in and of themselves; her particular focus here is the way in which Gnosticism affected the rise of the orthodox church that declared the Gnostics heretics.
		Pagel's work important in understanding the events and issues of the day that led to the Gnostic's eventual elimination from the world scene at the hands of the converted Roman Empire and the emerging Pauline Catholic Church and their subsequent purge of both Gospel text and thought outside their rigidly defined dogma.
		Pagels presents the historical facts in as fair-minded fashion as possible given that the historical record is written predominantly from the orthodox church's point of view.
	www.amazon.com /Gnostic-Gospels-Elaine-Pagels/dp/0679724532 (2731 words)

	Amazon.fr : Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas: Livres en anglais: Elaine Pagels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Elaine Pagels is perhaps best known for her text, 'The Gnostic Gospels' first published in 1979, in which she explores the different alternative gospel and scriptural writings used by (or at least known to) the Gnostic sects of Christians and proto-Christians in the early years of the common era.
		Pagels asserts that both assumed their communities would be familiar with the basic outline of the gospel story a la Mark (most likely the earliest of the canonical gospels), and that both John and Thomas give similar accounts of the private teachings of Jesus.
		Pagels' skillful writing and interesting narrative choice of using her own life as a backdrop to the larger issues of church history make this an interesting and worthwhile text for all.
	www.amazon.fr /Beyond-Belief-Secret-Gospel-Thomas/dp/0375501568 (1861 words)

	Beyond Unbelief -- A Critical Response to Elaine Pagels’ _Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas_
		Pagels certainty is further overstated because she is largely deconstructing the official literary sources she does have (sources which contradict her conclusions) for the purposes of forming a new account of “what really happened”.
		Pagels once again is evincing the fact that she is overconfident in the reliability of the image of history that her “electron microscope” is giving her.
		Pagels goes forward with her theory by saying that in addition to demanding the destruction of all the gospels but the four, Irenaeus, knowing that just having the “right” texts was not enough, also fabricated the “right” interpretation of these texts, especially John.
	www.thirdmill.org /newfiles/mat_gross/NT.Gross.Matthew_BeyondBeliefbyElainePagels.html (12496 words)

	UUA News & Events: General Assembly 2005: 4073 Ware Lecture
		Pagels began by describing her own upbringing: Protestant "in a tradition that's pretty boring." She fell, for a time, "in love with" evangelical Christianity, and then fell out of love with it.
		By the time Pagels got to graduate school, she recounted, scholars were rethinking the place of these gospels, as well as the four canonical gospels.
		Pagels, during her lecture, moved around the stage in an animated presentation, and occasionally called for specific slides of the sayings from the Gospel of Thomas to be displayed on the screen as she explained them.
	www.uua.org /ga/ga05/4073.html (742 words)

	Royce Carlton - Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels Scholar
		Elaine Pagels is a preeminent figure in the theological community whose impressive scholarship has earned her international respect.
		As a young researcher at Barnard College, she changed forever the historical landscape of the Christian religion by exploding the myth of the early Christian Church as a unified movement.
		Pagels is also the author of The Origin of Satan, which chronicles the evolution of Jewish and Christian concepts of evil.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/pagels.html (519 words)

	Beyond Belief : The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
		Shortly after Elaine Pagels’ two-and-half-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare lung disease, the religion professor found herself drawn to a Christian church again for the first time in many years.
		Pagels then shows how the Gospel of John was used by Bishop Irenaeus of Lyon and others to define orthodoxy during the second and third centuries.
		The one deficiency in Pagels’ examination of Thomas, if there is one, is that she never fully returns in the end to her own struggles with religion that so poignantly open the book.
	books.zaadz.com /4048/beyond_belief/by_elaine_pagels (423 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Beyond Belief, by Elaine Pagels, Paperback
		Pagels compares such sources as Thomas's gospel (which claims to give Jesus' secret teaching, and find its closest affinities with kabbalah) with the canonic texts to show how Christian leaders chose to include some gospels and exclude others from the collection we have come to know as the New Testament.
		Pagels goes on to demonstrate that the early Christian writer Irenaeus promoted John as the true gospel while he excluded Thomas, and a host of other early gospels, from the list of those texts that he considered authoritative.
		Pagels recites personal anecdotes about her own family in the book and I suspect they are pretty accurate-she and the other academics should give Luke and Mary the credence they deserve.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&pwb=1&ean=9780375703164 (1752 words)

	Elaine Pagels Lecture: Revisioning Christianity
		Elaine Pagels then walked slowly onstage with her crutches, saying that she has a broken ankle but it's healing.
		I felt that Pagels was toppling the foundations of Christianity with her insightful discoveries.
		Elaine told me to read Chapter 4 of her Beyond Belief that shows why John was included in the canonical texts and Thomas left out.
	www.wisdomportal.com /Stanford/ElainePagels-1.html (2306 words)

	Elaine Pagels
		Pagels says, "we cannot answer this question adequately as long as we consider the doctrine only in terms of its religious content." It may be that we can only answer the question "in terms of its religious content." It may turn out, gulp, that orthodox Christianity succeeded because, at the time, it was more appealing.
		But with Pagels, who likes Thomas better than John and Gnosticism more than Nicaea, the question then is why the religious appeal of the two sides is different, why she clearly wants to get "beyond belief" and devotes a career to, in effect, reviving Gnostic Christianity.
		Pagels doesn't consider the role of the Eurcharist in the religion because, I suspect, it is simply off the radar, while the political explanation for the failure of Gnosticism prevented the question from arising at all.
	www.friesian.com /pagels.htm (7169 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels
		In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing assessment of faith and a questioning of religious orthodoxy.
		Pagels says, "Thomas's Gospel encourages the hearer not so much to believe in Jesus, as John requires, as to seek to know God through one's own, divinely given capacity, since all are created in the image of God" [p.
		Pagels discusses several highly symbolic or metaphorical readings of the Bible, such as The Secret Book of John, in which Eve is interpreted as an embodiment of "epinoia --- a 'creative' or 'inventive' consciousness," and the apple as a symbol of higher spiritual knowledge [pp.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/beyond_belief1.asp (711 words)

	Elaine Pagels Summary
		Elaine Hiesey Pagels (born 1943), historian of religion, was a leading interpreter of the Nag Hammadi gnostic texts and their implications for understanding the origins and development of Christianity.
		Elaine Hiesey Pagels was born on February 13, 1943,...
		Elaine Pagels (née Hiesey, born February 13, 1943), is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
	www.bookrags.com /Elaine_Pagels (178 words)

	Elaine Pagels on LearnOutLoud.com - Your Audio and Video Learning Resource.
		Spurred by personal tragedy, Elaine Pagels turns to a consideration of the Gnostic Gospels, in particular, the Gospel of Thomas....
		Elaine Pagels, one of the world's most important writers and thinkers on religion and history....
		Millions of readers have turned to Elaine Pagels for her clear and insightful books about the Gnostic Gospels, the teachings of Jesus that have been lost for centuries.
	www.learnoutloud.com /Results/Author/Elaine-Pagels/5514 (109 words)

	answeringinfidels.com
		Elaine Pagels is a Distinguished Professor of Religion at Princeton and says "Yes!" in her best selling book Beyond Belief.
		The next proof Pagels offers to support her theory of “John vs. Thomas” is that John is the only gospel to present a negative image of Thomas.
		Pagels is too quick to look for a way out of the doctrines she “cannot love,” but as one who isn’t afraid to list her scholarly credentials and accolades, Pagels should hold herself to a higher standard of accuracy and, dare I say,
	www.answeringinfidels.com /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=56 (1198 words)

	Amazon.com: Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas: Books: Elaine Pagels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		However I feel in some areas Pagels tends to overpraise this and other Gnostic scripture while overlooking the evident shortcomings of Gnostics, including their very negative view of this world and embodied existence, as well as the non-Gnostics who besides the very few number of those who had 'true Gnosis', were bound to hell.
		Elaine Pagels is by perhaps the key figure in the resurgence of gnostic ideas.
		In this work, Pagels less than forthright concerning scholarship dating the composition of the texts under consideration and her contention that John was written in reaction to Thomas can be considered at best a fringe opinion.
	www.amazon.com /Beyond-Belief-Secret-Gospel-Thomas/dp/0375501568 (4154 words)

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