Elaine Hiesey Pagels (born 1943), historian of religion, was a leading interpreter of the Nag Hammadi gnostic texts and their implications for understanding the origins and development of Christianity. Elaine Hiesey Pagels was born on February 13,...
Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, (born February 13, 1943), is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic...
The author of 'The Gnostic Gospels' and 'The Origin of Satan' briefly joined an evangelical church herself during her early teens and knows the feeling of religious conversion. She discusses religious symbolism and her reasons for writing her books. LONG BEFORE HER 1979...
PW: Why did you write Beyond Belief [see review, p. 64]? Elaine Pagels: Well, it took me eight years to write this book. I felt like I was writing two books, one of them drawn from my scholarly essays on early Christianity. The...
At the summit of national power, politicians and bureaucrats are terrified at the idea of endorsing the religious views of the majority of Americans. Our First Amendment forbids the establishment of a state religion, but many of our governing elites are taking it a step...
