Author: Elaine Pagels
Publisher: Trinity Press Int’l
Keywords: gnostic, letters, pauline, exegesis, paul
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1992-03-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1563380390
ISBN-13: 9781563380396

In this highly original work, Elaine Pagels demonstrates how evidence from gnostic sources may challenge the assumption that Paul writes his letters to combat "gnostic opponents" and to repudiate their claims to secret wisdom. Drawing upon evidence from the gnostic exegesis of Paul, including several Nag Hammadi texts, the author examines how gnostic exegetes cite and interpret key passages in the letters they consider Pauline -1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Hebrews. Besides offering new insight into controversies over Paul in the second century, this

Author:
Publisher: Moon Temple Press
Keywords: bartholomew, gospel, gnostic
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2007-01-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1430302992
ISBN-13: 9781430302995

Author: Elaine Pagel
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: gospels, gnostic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-04-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0394502787
ISBN-13: 9780394502786

Gnosticism’s Christian form grew to prominence in the 2nd century A.D. Ultimately denounced as heretical by the early church, Gnosticism proposed a revealed knowledge of God ("gnosis" meaning "knowledge" in Greek), held as a secret tradition of the apostles. In The Gnostic Gospels, author Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon. Without a doubt: Gnosticism celebrates God as both Mother and Father, shows a very human Jesus’s relationship to Mary Magdalene, suggests the Resurrection is bet

Author: Hans Jonas
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: religion, gnostic
Number of Pages: 359
Published: 2001-01-16
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0807058017
ISBN-13: 9780807058015

The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

Author:
Publisher: Book Tree
Keywords: gospel, gnostic, sophia, pistis
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1585092673
ISBN-13: 9781585092673

Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Gospel, translated by G.R.S. Mead. The Gnostics were composed of a number of early Christian mystical sects. Their teachers were persecuted and documents destroyed because the Church desired a uniform set of beliefs to operate under. Only now have we begun to better appreciate these early Christian mystics. Pistis Sophia was the most important Gnostic document until the discovery and publication of The Nag Hammadi Library. This work remains an important milestone in Gnostic research, on par with Nag Hammadi, and should be part of any serious study. It is the story of h

Author: Edwin M. Yamauchi
Publisher: Gorgias Pr Llc
Keywords: origins, mandaean, ethics, gnostic
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2004-01-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1931956855
ISBN-13: 9781931956857

Authors:Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer,
Publisher: New Seeds
Keywords: bible, gnostic
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2006-05-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1590301994
ISBN-13: 9781590301999

A landmark work of scholarship and literary translation, The Gnostic Bible presents the most significant and beautiful sacred texts of gnostic mysticism. The gnostics were religious thinkers who believed that salvation is found through mystical knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. Dating from the first to the thirteenth centuries, the selections in this volume represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar forms of gnostic spirituality, and their sources