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 and ...

In this majestic new book, Pagels (The Gnostic Gospels) ranges panoramically over the history of early Christianity, demonstrating the religion's initial tremendous diversity and its narrowing to ...

Elaine Pagels, who canceled her Nov. 11 appearance in Dallas because of illness, will speak 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6 at a sold-out Arts & Letters Live event. This story was originally posted on Nov. 1 ...

Why do people have faith in what they cannot see? Author Elaine Pagels explores the concept of religious belief, and shares her own experience with finding faith in the face of tragedy, in her new ...

A professor once said to me that religious scholars come in two varieties: those who openly admit the connections between their scholarship and their autobiography, and liars. By this standard, Elaine ...

Divine beings, visions, revelations and apocalypses, angels and resurrection—the Bible is filled with such fantastical elements. What does it all mean today? Princeton University Professor of Religion ...

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 ...

Elaine Pagels, professor of religion and bestselling author, was awarded the National Humanities Medal at Thursday noon by President Barack Obama. “I was very surprised,” Pagels said. “I was ...

It sounds like a strategy meeting with the campaign team: “Whom do men say that I am?” Staff members start tossing out responses from the latest polling: “Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some ...