Best described as a devotional, this collection of letters offers 114 meditations corresponding to the verses of the Gospel of Thomas. Malachi, a California-based mystic who founded the Sophia ...

Now the full translation by five scholars* of all 114 “sayings”—together with the Coptic-language text—has been published as The Gospel According to Thomas (Harper; $2). The Evil Creator. The ...

The problem began with the act of assembling the New Testament itself. According to Pagels the earliest group of Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke (the so-called Synoptic Gospels), shared with the ...

The inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, this debut collection from Gleason contains enlightening and beautifully written essays on illness and medicine. The Continue reading » Letters ...

There was a time when scholars of early Christianity labored in anonymity at the bottom of academic pecking orders. Then came Princeton professor Elaine Pagels, whose “The Gnostic Gospels” became a ...

Re “Judas Is No Traitor in Long-Lost Gospel,” April 7 It is fashionable to equate Gnostic writings with Christianity, but Gnostic writings negate the Judeo-Christian Scriptures. Gnosticism was an ...