Beyond belief.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
From: The Christian Century
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Date: 7/13/2004
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Author: Burgess, John; Luther, Carol; Pagels, Elaine
JUST ABOUT EVERY review of Elaine Pagels's book Beyond Belief, including the CENTURY'S review by John Burgess ("Going creedless," June 1), seems to bristle with a kind of "us and themness"--our Gospel of John vs. their Gospel of Thomas, our "doctrinal" Christianity vs. their "experiential" Christianity. It almost kept me from reading the book. But as in the case of The Gnostic Gospels, the book I read was not the book the reviews had led me to expect.
Far from being ...
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