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The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings from Ancient to Modern Times
Heaven is not simply a theological, literary, or artistic phenomenon. It is experiential: in moments of play, of love, of passion, of unity, of selfless giving, of freedom, of...
Getting Satan Behind Us
The Origin Of SatanBy Elaine PagelsRandom House, 214 pages, $23 Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion at Princeton, is a distinguished scholar of Gnosticism and of the Nag Hammadi texts...