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by Elaine Pagels

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Bestselling author Elaine Pagels examines how the founders of the Christian church permanently revolutionized the meaning of sexuality.

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A National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us.

"Confirms her reputation as both a scholar and a popular interpreter.... Continuously rewarding and illuminating." --The New York Times

How did the early Christians come to believe that sex was inherently sinful? When did the Fall of Adam become synonymous with the fall of humanity? What turned Christianity from a dissident sect that championed the integrity of the individual and the idea of free will into the bulwark of a new imperial order--with the central belief that human beings cannot not choose to sin? In this provocative masterpiece of historical scholarship Elaine Pagels re-creates the controversies that racked the early church as it confronted the riddles of sexuality, freedom, and sin as embodied in the story of Genesis. And she shows how what was once heresy came to shape our own attitudes toward the body and the soul.

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Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us.

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  • Title Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
  • Author Elaine Pagels
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Vintage Books ed
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1989-09-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780679722328 / 0679722327
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.26 x 0.59 in (20.37 x 13.36 x 1.50 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Category Religion - Church History
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex - Biblical teaching, Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89040147
  • Dewey Decimal Code 241.660

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"A stunning book...[that] refreshes our view of early Christianity." --Christian Science Monitor

About the author

ELAINE PAGELS is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of Reading Judas, The Gnostic Gospels--winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award--and the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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