Elaine Pagels Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Elaine Pagels quotes and sayings page 3 (historian). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 43 we have.
“Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.”
“The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.”
“The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.”
“These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.”
“I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.”
“We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written.”
“What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.”
“About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length.”
“At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.”
“For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.”
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