Pagels E. 1996. The Origin of Satan. Harmondsworth: Penguin.Pagels, Elaine. (1995). The origin of Satan. New York: Vintage. Schmitt, C. (1996). Roman Catholicism and Political Form. London: Greenwood Press.The Origin of Satan - Pagels - 1995 () Citation Context ...her.” (p. 1) ...
occasionally introduced a supernatural character whom they called the satan, what they meant was any one of the angels sent by God for the specific purpose of blocking or obstructing human activity. [Elaine Pagels, "The Origin of Satan," 1995] In Middle English also Satanas, Sathanas....
The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels and her belief that Paul of Tarsus was a Gnostic Christian. Her popular books include, The Gnostic Gospels (1979), Adam, Eve and the Serpent (1988), The Origin of Satan (1995)...
with people of the same race waging war and committing atrocities of great magnitude upon each other. In her bookThe Origin of Satan, Elaine Pagels describes how this background was integral in the
“the creative or inventive consciousness sent to Adam by God in the form of Eve.” O’Leary adds, by way of Elaine Pagels, that “luminous epinoia” “might also be understood to mean the creative imagination and related modes of awareness,an inner resource,and the most refined mode of...
[It is here that the title of one of Shermer’s previous works strikes one as quite apropos; namely, “Why People Believe Weird Things.”] A version of the origin of Christianity that more accurately adheres to the literary record would be: Circa-40 C.E. — Jesus is “revealed” to ...
In the first couple centuries of Christian development, Broadbent praises Origin and appears sympathetic to the Montanist movement, perhaps because of their emphasis on direction by the Spirit. He uncovers an anonymous letter sent to Diognetus which provides not a word of doctrine, but mimics the ...
Before simply posting the actual Afterword, though, I wanted to also share what I suppose is an anecdote culled from when I was working on my dissertation (roundabout 2000), "Beowulfand the Floating Wreck of History," which dissertation was mainly a response, or what I was calling at the ...
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Profiles writer professor Elaine Pagels and looks into her book `The Origin of Satan' published in June 1995. Arguments given for the origin of concept of Devil in Christianity; Other things mentioned in the book.CoughlinEllenK.EBSCO_AspChronicle of Higher Education...