The gnostic gospels
By: by Elaine Pagels
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: September 19, 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780679724537
Subjects: Gnosticism; Religion - Church History; Religion; Christianity - History - General; Christianity - Literature & the Arts; Religion / Christian Literature; Theology; Christianity - Literature; Chenoboskion manuscripts
First sentence: "JESUS CHRIST ROSE from the grave."
Description: "A startling account of the meaning of Jesus and the origin of Christianity based on gnostic gospels and other secret texts, written almost 2,000 years ago, recently discovered near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt." --
Notes: Originally published in 1979 by Random House, New York.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The controversy over Christ's resurrection : historical event or symbol?; title: One God, one Bishop : the politics of monotheism; title: God the Father / God the Mother; title: The passion of Christ and the persecution of Christians; title: Whose church is the true church?; title: Gnosis : self-knowledge as knowledge of God; title: Conclusion