Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Pagels, Elaine

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity

A National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author deepens and refreshes our view of...
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Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Pagels, Elaine

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity

$42.28

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity

$42.28
Author: Elaine Pagels
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Elaine Pagels
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/19/1989
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780679722328

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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