SOURCE: James Finn Cotter. “Pagels’s Paradise Lost,” in The Hudson Review, Vol. XLII, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 165-70. In the epilogue of her … book [Adam, Eve, and the Serpent], Elaine Pagels tells us that, dissatisfied with contemporary Christianity, she turned to the earliest Christians for answers. She assumed that in that era, when the movement was… Read More Elaine Pagels’s Paradise Lost