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Title: Beyond Belief
Author: Elaine Pagels
Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck
Format: Abridged
Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-20-04
Publisher: Random House Audio
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Summary:
When her infant son was diagnosed with fatal pulmonary hypertension, Elaine Pagels' 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 50 other early Christian texts unknown since antiquity, offers startling clues. Pagels compares such sources as Thomas' gospel (which claims to give Jesus' secret teaching, and finds its closest affinities with kabbalah) with the canonic texts to show how Christian leaders chose to include some gospels and exclude others from the collection we have come to know as the New Testament. To stabilize the emerging Christian church in times of devastating persecution, the church fathers constructed the canon, creed, and hierarchy, and, in the process, suppressed many of its spiritual resources.
Drawing on new scholarship, her own and that of an international group of scholars, that has come to light since the publication in 1979 of The Gnostic Gospels, Pagels shows that what matters about Christianity involves much more than any one set of beliefs. Traditions embodied in Judaism and Christianity can powerfully affect us in heart, mind, and spirit, inspire visions of a new society based on practicing justice and love, even heal and transform us.
Contact: [email protected]
https://esound.space/audible
Title: Beyond Belief
Author: Elaine Pagels
Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck
Format: Abridged
Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-20-04
Publisher: Random House Audio
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Summary:
When her infant son was diagnosed with fatal pulmonary hypertension, Elaine Pagels' 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 50 other early Christian texts unknown since antiquity, offers startling clues. Pagels compares such sources as Thomas' gospel (which claims to give Jesus' secret teaching, and finds its closest affinities with kabbalah) with the canonic texts to show how Christian leaders chose to include some gospels and exclude others from the collection we have come to know as the New Testament. To stabilize the emerging Christian church in times of devastating persecution, the church fathers constructed the canon, creed, and hierarchy, and, in the process, suppressed many of its spiritual resources.
Drawing on new scholarship, her own and that of an international group of scholars, that has come to light since the publication in 1979 of The Gnostic Gospels, Pagels shows that what matters about Christianity involves much more than any one set of beliefs. Traditions embodied in Judaism and Christianity can powerfully affect us in heart, mind, and spirit, inspire visions of a new society based on practicing justice and love, even heal and transform us.
Contact: [email protected]
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