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 ...

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 ...

Archbishop Angelo Amato, a top Vatican official, recently railed against The Da Vinci Code as a work "full of calumnies, offenses and historical and theological errors.'' As a historian, I would agree ...

In this majestic new book, Pagels (The Gnostic Gospels) ranges panoramically over the history of early Christianity, demonstrating the religion's initial tremendous diversity and its narrowing to ...

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 ...

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 ...