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People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don’t have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn’t mean you have to throw out the whole thing (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
I just have a sense that, you know, I’m curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It’s not because it’s a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying ‘the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.’ (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The Antichrist is often identified with the second beast in the Book of Revelation that arises from the land, the beast that tries to make everyone worship the power of evil. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It’s so dense; it’s so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos’s visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don’t see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don’t think he would have liked at all. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less important, because I realize the Christian movement thrived then and can now on other elements of the tradition. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It’s challenging leaders of the church. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus’ death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John’s own fear and doubt (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there’s no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine husband or lover of any. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
At the end of the day I’ll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn’t against martyrdom, and he didn’t ever insult the martyrs. He said it’s one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it’s another thing to say that’s what God wants, that this is a glorification of God. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I’d heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him. (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The Antichrist is often identified with the second beast in the Book of Revelation that arises from the land, the beast that tries to make everyone worship the power of evil (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It’s almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
Really, I don’t like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn’t writing books (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It’s challenging leaders of the church (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
We don’t actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don’t know exactly when it was written (Elaine Pagels Quotes)
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