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First Paperback Edition 1992 Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maide... more First Paperback Edition 1992 Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704 11 York Road New York London SE1 7NX NY 10038 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any ...
Choice Reviews Online, Dec 1, 2003
Vigiliae Christianae, Mar 1, 1989
New Yorkxxviii, 189 p.; 24 c
New Yorkxxxvi, 182 p.; 24 c
Choice Reviews Online, Jul 1, 2012
Advances in Model-Based Software Testing, 2015
Harvard Theological Review
This article shows that the Gospel of Truth (NHC I, 3), dense with allusions to sources now in th... more This article shows that the Gospel of Truth (NHC I, 3), dense with allusions to sources now in the New Testament, most often explored for its resonances with Johannine literature, also offers significant evidence for second-century reception of Paul’s letters, while highlighting poetic images often overlooked. Correlating the language and literary structure of such Pauline passages as 1 Cor 1–6 with the opening of the Gospel of Truth shows that the latter implicitly claims to reveal the secret and primordial “wisdom of God” that Paul declares he teaches only orally to initiates (1 Cor 2:6–7). Thus, this text exemplifies a kind of “heretical” reading that heresiologists like Irenaeus deplore, when, for example, he cites this very passage to complain that “each of (the heretics) declares that this ‘wisdom’ is whatever he invents (fictionem videlicet), so that sometimes they claim that the truth is in Valentinus, or in Marcion, or in someone else …” (Haer. 3.2.1). Furthermore, this res...
Rage, Power, and Aggression
As discussed in The Da Vinci Code...Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the s... more As discussed in The Da Vinci Code...Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus. In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in an earthenware jar buried in the Egyptian desert. These so-called Gnostic writings were Coptic translations from the original Greek dating from the time of the New Testament. The material they embodied - poems, quasi-philosophical descriptions of the origins of the universe, myths, magic and instructions for mystic practice - were later declared heretical, as they offered a powerful alternative to the Orthodox Christian tradition. In a book that is as exciting as it is scholarly, Elaine Pagels examines these texts and the questions they pose and shows why Gnosticism was eventually stamped out by the increasingly organised and institutionalised Orthodox Church.
Sociological Analysis, 1980
First Paperback Edition 1992 Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maide... more First Paperback Edition 1992 Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704 11 York Road New York London SE1 7NX NY 10038 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any ...
Choice Reviews Online, Dec 1, 2003
Vigiliae Christianae, Mar 1, 1989
New Yorkxxviii, 189 p.; 24 c
New Yorkxxxvi, 182 p.; 24 c
Choice Reviews Online, Jul 1, 2012
Advances in Model-Based Software Testing, 2015
Harvard Theological Review
This article shows that the Gospel of Truth (NHC I, 3), dense with allusions to sources now in th... more This article shows that the Gospel of Truth (NHC I, 3), dense with allusions to sources now in the New Testament, most often explored for its resonances with Johannine literature, also offers significant evidence for second-century reception of Paul’s letters, while highlighting poetic images often overlooked. Correlating the language and literary structure of such Pauline passages as 1 Cor 1–6 with the opening of the Gospel of Truth shows that the latter implicitly claims to reveal the secret and primordial “wisdom of God” that Paul declares he teaches only orally to initiates (1 Cor 2:6–7). Thus, this text exemplifies a kind of “heretical” reading that heresiologists like Irenaeus deplore, when, for example, he cites this very passage to complain that “each of (the heretics) declares that this ‘wisdom’ is whatever he invents (fictionem videlicet), so that sometimes they claim that the truth is in Valentinus, or in Marcion, or in someone else …” (Haer. 3.2.1). Furthermore, this res...
Rage, Power, and Aggression
As discussed in The Da Vinci Code...Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the s... more As discussed in The Da Vinci Code...Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus. In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in an earthenware jar buried in the Egyptian desert. These so-called Gnostic writings were Coptic translations from the original Greek dating from the time of the New Testament. The material they embodied - poems, quasi-philosophical descriptions of the origins of the universe, myths, magic and instructions for mystic practice - were later declared heretical, as they offered a powerful alternative to the Orthodox Christian tradition. In a book that is as exciting as it is scholarly, Elaine Pagels examines these texts and the questions they pose and shows why Gnosticism was eventually stamped out by the increasingly organised and institutionalised Orthodox Church.
Sociological Analysis, 1980