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The gnostic gospels / by Elaine Pagels

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1989Copyright date: ©1979Edition: Vintage Books edition, September 1989Description: xxxvi, 182 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0679724532
  • 9780679724537
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 273/.1 P133G
LOC classification:
  • BT1390 .P133G
Contents:
The controversy over Christ's resurrection : historical event or symbol? -- "One God, one bishop" : the politics of monotheism -- God the father/God the mother -- The passion of Christ and the persecution of Christians -- Whose church is the "true church"? -- Gnosis : self-knowledge as knowledge of God
Summary: "A startling account of the meaning of Jesus and the origin of Christianity based on gnostic gospels and other secret texts, written almost 2,000 years ago, recently discovered near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt." -- Jacket subtitle
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Books Books Harvest Mission College General Stacks Non-fiction 273.1 P133G (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 011602

Originally published in 1979 by Random House, New York

Includes bibliographical references and index

The controversy over Christ's resurrection : historical event or symbol? -- "One God, one bishop" : the politics of monotheism -- God the father/God the mother -- The passion of Christ and the persecution of Christians -- Whose church is the "true church"? -- Gnosis : self-knowledge as knowledge of God

"A startling account of the meaning of Jesus and the origin of Christianity based on gnostic gospels and other secret texts, written almost 2,000 years ago, recently discovered near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt." -- Jacket subtitle

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