In 'Requiem,' her fifth book, Virginia Konchan takes the sacred seriously. She’s jocular with her subjects, including God, ...

Book Review. Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus. By Elaine Pagels Doubleday: 336 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org ...

From where I sit, Pagels was always writing in one way or another about Jesus. But in the preface of her new book, “Miracles and Wonder,” she says, “Only now, after reflecting on the themes ...

When I got to the last pages of "Miracles and Wonder," I realized that while I knew a great deal more about the origins of Christianity than when I began, the mystery of Jesus himself had deepened ...

“The point of my going away is that immeasurably more will open up. If I don’t go, the Holy Spirit won’t come,” says Jesus, in effect. “If you cling to me as a human friend, a warm presence, that’s ...

It raises questions about the virgin birth of Jesus, even pointing to ancient evidence that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier, possibly by rape.

'Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus' by Elaine Pagels. T he compelling latest book from the best-selling religious scholar Elaine Pagels is "a kind of culminating work," said ...

Perhaps the fear of the pandemic has caused more people to ask questions about miracles. Many people believe in a higher power and miracles, according to 2018 poll by the Pew Research Center ...

But we do know that it was Mark's genius to first to commit the story of Jesus to writing, and thereby inaugurated the gospel tradition. "The gospels are very peculiar types of literature.

People pounced on Rick Warren tweet that says, "If you’re looking for the #realJesus, not a caricature disfigured by partisan motivations, you’ll find him in the middle, not on either side." ...

When I got to the last pages of "Miracles and Wonder," I realized that while I knew a great deal more about the origins of Christianity than when I began, the mystery of Jesus himself had deepened ...