The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
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Author: Elaine PagelsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-06
ISBN: 0394502787
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Random House
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Book Review: Impossible to put down...
Summary: 5 Stars
I started reading this book while attempting to write an essay on 'The appeal of Gnosticism' and ended up reading it from cover to cover in about 8 hours. I'm a student and sometimes I feel alienated from my work but this book reminded me of all the questions that interest me.... why we say the apostles creed and why orthodoxy evolved as it has.... how modern churches reflect tendencies that were deemed heretical by the early church ... this book really deals with the theology developed by gnostics and its relation to the mainstream Christianity. Yet it does all this in a thoroughly accessible way, a respectable work that doesn't drown you with references. This is a thoroughly balanced and informative work written in a manner which should entice even the most inexpert non-bookworm to learn more about the 'secret knowledge' gnostic groups claimed to have and how it affected the development of the Christian Church and has continued to do so. I thoroughly recommend it.
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