From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Chris…
In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the …
How did it happen that Christian tradition cane to find sexual desire sinful and to claim that infants, from the moment of conception, are infected with the disease of original sin, that Adam's sis…