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Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism . Her best-selling book The Gnostic Gospels (1979) examines the divisions in the early ...
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Elaine Pagels (born February 13, 1943, Palo Alto, California, U.S.) American educator and scholar of the origins of Christianity. Elaine Hiesey studied at Stanford University, receiving a B.A. in history (1964) and an M.A. in classics (1965). While studying for a doctoral degree at Harvard University, she married the physicist Heinz Pagels.
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Dec 4, 2018 · A Personal Story. By Elaine Pagels. 235 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99. Everyone mourns differently. There is no template for grief. Religions offer frameworks, structures, rituals and ...
Elaine Pagels has continued to research and write about the theological shifts and battles within earlier Christianity. Her book, The Origin of Satan, published in 1995, is dedicated to her two children, David and Sarah, and in 1995 Pagels married Kent Greenawalt, a law professor at Columbia University.
Oct 30, 2018 · Elaine Pagels has made a career out of rewriting Christian history. Her first book, the 1979 best seller The Gnostic Gospels, reappraised Christian documents long considered heretical.In the books ...
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Nov 7, 2018 · Distinguished scholar of Christianity Elaine Pagels sets out to explain why religion is still around today, through the lens of her lived tragedies — the deaths of her son and husband 30 years ago.
Oct 26, 2018 · Acclaimed scholar Elaine Pagels is known for her work on the Gnostic Gospels and the origins of Christianity. Now in a beautiful, raw memoir she shows how that academic work was born out of loss ...