Pheme Perkins

“The World’s Oldest Church,” by Michael Peppard

Elaine Pagels’ new book reads the Book of Revelation as wartime literature.

Robert Bellah has shaped the way in which we think of the roles of religion in modern society.

James H. Charlesworth’s new book is a massive study of snake symbolism across several millennia.

One might approach this book as a field guide to the multiple species of church or early Christian assembly to be found in the New Testament The text remains rooted in the world of first-century Christianity The Rev Raymond Collins professor of New Testament at The Catholic University of America

There are Ph D dissertations yet to be written on religion according to Bill Moyers and the liberal intellectuals of Public Television When they are Professor Elaine Pagels of Princeton University will figure prominently as one of their well-known talking heads Her earlier books The Gnostic Gos