The Gnostic Gospels

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 19, 1989 - Religion - 224 pages
A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.

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Contents

God the FatherGod the Mother
48
The Passion of Christ
70
Whose Church Is the True Church?
102
SelfKnowledge as Knowledge of God
119
Conclusion
142
Index
175
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About the author (1989)

Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of several books, including Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, and The Gnostic Gospels, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Professor Pagels lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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