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Special edition including the complete text of the Gospel of Thomas Elaine Pagels, one of the worldвЂTMs most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels , now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first century. This bold new book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945. When her infant son was diagnosed with fatal pulmonary hypertension, Elaine PagelsвЂTMs spiritual and intellectual quest took on a new urgency, leading her to explore historical and archeological sources and to investigate what Jesus and his teachings meant to his followers before the invention of doctrine–and before the invention of Christianity as we know it. The astonishing discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, along with more than fifty other early Christian texts unknown since antiquity, offers startling clues. Pagels compares such sources as ThomasвЂTMs gospel (which claims to give JesusвЂTM secret teaching, and finds its closest affinities with kabbalah) with the canon

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Author

Elaine H Pagels

Publisher

Random House (NYC)

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330431972

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible

Rating

3.93 / 5 (205 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14