![]() ![]() ![]() Pagels: So far as I know, all the so-called "fathers of the church" glorified martyrdom. ![]() You write that he conveyed "the urgency of someone who wants to unmask what he feels is the hideous folly of leaders who encourage people to get themselves killed in this way." Whom might he have meant?" TIME: You and Karen write that the "Judas" author was angry, particularly at the Christian church's developing cult of martyrdom. She breaks new ground with the debut of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, her collaboration with Harvard Divinity scholar Karen King about the second-century "Gospel of Judas" that was made public last year. It is largely through her work that many understand the early non-Orthodox Christianity that she at one point dubbed (and later un-dubbed, finding the term imprecise) the Gnostic Gospels. Princeton University's Elaine Pagels is about the nearest thing there is to a superstar in the realm of Christian history scholarship. ![]()
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