The movie and book are fiction. But anyone who took in The Da Vinci Code in theaters over the weekend might be wondering whether they had fallen asleep in Sunday School. From the big screen, viewers ...

One person’s good news may be another’s lost cause. And that is, literally, the gospel truth. Just ask Elaine Pagels, a champion of lost gospels, as she rides the wake of Mel Gibson’s Gospel ...

Elaine Pagels, a best-selling author and religion scholar at Princeton University, will be the featured speaker during the "Insights: A Series of Lectures and Talks" program today at Trinity Episcopal ...

Wrapped up in "The Da Vinci Code" whirlwind, the world is in an uproar and captivated by the questions the all-time bestselling novel raises regarding Christianity’s most notable and cherished ...

The Gnostic bible is not a source of truth leading us to God. The Da Vinci Code and the Gnostic bible Since the Bible, the traditional one, has stood the test of time and the disciplines of history ...

What does The Da Vinci Code have to do with a letter written by the archbishop of Alexandria in the year 367? As it turns out, quite a lot. Call it part of the Gnostic connection, a long, fine thread ...

Sixty years ago this December, texts that came to be known as the Nag Hammadi Library were discovered in the Egyptian desert. The leather-bound sheets of papyrus, now housed in a Cairo museum, include ...

The 52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt include 'secret' gospels poems and myths attributing to Jesus sayings and beliefs which are very different from the New Testament. Scholar Elaine Pagels ...