Gnostic Paul

Gnostic Exegesis Of The Pauline Letters

BY ELAINE PAGELS

Brief Description:
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 a variety of gnostic sources Pagels demonstrates how gnostic writers not on ly failed to grasp the whole point of Paul's writings, but dared to claim his letters as primary source for their anthropology, Christology, and sacramental theology.

Trinity Press International 1992 180 PP. Paper

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