Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels Hardback Book

Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels. New Hardback book. Pagels, a writer & thinker on religion & history, winner of the Nat'l Book Award for The Gnostic Gospels, reflects on what matters most about spiritual & religious exploration in the 21st century. This book explores how Xianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945. When her infant son was diagnosed with fatal pulmonary hypertension, Pagels' spiritual & intellectual quest took on a new urgency, leading her to explore historical & archeological sources & to investigate what Jesus & his teachings meant to his followers before the invention of Xianity.