Pagels

In a chapter called "One God, One Bishop," Pagels is concerned to show that the doctrine of monotheism and the hierarchical structuring of the Church were mutually reinforcing ploys designed to consolidate ecclesiastical power and eliminate diversity -- specifically, the diversity that Pagels finds in the Gnostics whom Irenaeus was at pains to refute.

The Gnostic shuffle ... Frank Wilson 2006

Of course the Christian response to Pagels is to use the same language of division common to most apologetic arguments against their detractors: she's not intelligent, has no knowledge of scripture, and shouldn't even be allowed to study scripture from a historical perspective.

What's Really Behind the Da Vinci Code Furor? Christopher O'Brien 2006

Of course the Christian response to Pagels is to use the same language of division common to most apologetic arguments against their detractors: she's not intelligent, has no knowledge of scripture, and shouldn't even be allowed to study scripture from a historical perspective.

Archive 2006-05-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006

Jesus 'sex life was not covered by the apostles or written about in any texts left behind, at least not those in the so-called canon, but that's biblical history and if you want to know more go read some books by Bart Ehrman and Elaine Pagels.

Leanne Goebel: Colorado Councilman May Want to Explore Why Art "Turned Him On?" Leanne Goebel 2010

Although Pagels 'conclusion is right, it's not just your consciousness that's the only one, it's ours.

Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010

As Elaine Pagels wrote in Beyond Belief, “From the beginning, what attracted outsiders who walked into a gathering of Christians … was the presence of a group joined by spiritual power into an extended family.”

One World, Under God 2009

Placed center-stage in Pagels's account, they offer an unsettling version of Christianity—one in which Jesus is the lover of Mary Magdalene and ideas such as the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection are treated as naïve fantasies.

Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity Mary Beard 2011

Although Pagels 'conclusion is right, it's not just your consciousness that's the only one, it's ours.

Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010

The early-Christian "Jesus cult" was very different from the organized Christianity of our own age, as Elaine Pagels showed in this classic study of the so-called "heretical" traditions of Christianity in the first few centuries after Jesus' death—that is to say, all those diverse traditions that the church establishment later took care to brand as wrong.

Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity Mary Beard 2011

Jesus 'sex life was not covered by the apostles or written about in any texts left behind, at least not those in the so-called canon, but that's biblical history and if you want to know more go read some books by Bart Ehrman and Elaine Pagels.

Leanne Goebel: Colorado Councilman May Want to Explore Why Art "Turned Him On?" Leanne Goebel 2010