Elaine Pagels - Wikipedia
Pagels married law professor Kent Greenawalt from Columbia University in June 1995. [17] Each had been widowed about six years earlier, left with children. She had a son and a daughter, while Greenawalt had three sons.
Pagels traverses grief, healing and - Princeton University
Apr 16, 2019 · In her acclaimed 2018 book, “Why Religion? A Personal Story,” Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, interweaves her own account of unimaginable loss with the scholarly work that she loves, examining the spiritual dimension of human experience.
Elaine Pagels | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica
Elaine Pagels, American educator and scholar of the origins of Christianity. Her notable books included The Gnostic Gospels (1979), The Origin of Satan (1995), Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (2003), and Why Religion?: A Personal Story (2018). Learn more about Pagels’s life and career.
Elaine Pagels: Is belief in conventional religion overrated?
Sep 12, 2020 · In her latest book “Why Religion? A Personal Story” Pagels recounts her own journey into faith, how surprised she was by her ability to get through the tragedy of losing her son and her husband, and why she did not give up on God.
Elaine Pagels on Religion, Mourning, Scholarship, and Faith
Oct 30, 2018 · Most of those books were informed by cataclysms in her personal life, as she outlines in her new memoir, Why Religion? In 1987, her 6-year-old son, Mark, died after a prolonged illness; the...
After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why …
Nov 16, 2018 · A rare lung disease killed Elaine Pagels’s six-year-old son, and then about a year later her husband fell to his death while mountain climbing.
'Why Religion?' Asks 'How Hearts Can Heal' After Tragedy - NPR
Nov 5, 2018 · Religion scholar Elaine Pagels lost her young son to terminal illness and her husband a year later in an accident. Her new book combines memoir and biblical scholarship to reflect on loss and...
Elaine Pagels Interviewed - The Santa Barbara Independent
Jan 3, 2020 · A Personal Story. In the space of a year, Pagels lost her 6-year-old son, Mark, to a rare pulmonary disease, and her husband, Heinz, to a hiking accident in Colorado. The book is a moving account of Pagels’s journey to become whole again after unimaginable loss.
Elaine Pagels | NaturalView
Personal Life and Impact: Elaine Pagels’ work has been influential not only in academic circles but also in broader discussions about religion and spirituality in contemporary society. Her ability to translate complex historical and theological concepts into accessible language has made her a widely respected figure in both scholarly and ...
Scholar Elaine Pagels says spirituality defies logic. She knows from ...
Dec 14, 2018 · Elaine Pagels, an esteemed scholar of early Christianity and professor of religion at Princeton University, knew writing about her own spiritual experiences, particularly regarding the death of...