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Terrific read about one of the great men of Philadelphia and an influential Founding Father. Really enjoyed it.
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Fascinating look at the history of the Mormon religion intertwined with a murder case by Fundamentalists.
First true Lovecraft novella I’ve ever read. I’ve enjoyed a lot of Lovecraft inspired things (Lovecraft Country, Arkham Horror) but never actually read the source material. I know he’s a very problematic author but I enjoyed the creepy, impending doom vibe of this book.
This is a fascinating, exhaustively researched account of the Kent State Massacre. If you're not familiar with the event, the book provides all the background and context you need. I highly recommend it if you're interested in historical graphic novels.
This was a pretty fascinating, slightly dry book about the motivations of early Christian writers more than anything else. I felt it did not touch on the origins of Satan in Christian mythology that much.
I kept waiting for it to get to a grand conclusion and it was a tenuous thread at best.
That being said, the discussions on the gospels as polemics against Jews are thought provoking and timely. Over the course of bible reading I have come to loathe the epistles and Pagels takes the reader on a contextual journey of motivation for those fateful letter writers.
It’s interesting how the lens of the writer can be so influential. I read Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus several years ago and came away from that book thinking Celcus was an utter whack job. In Pagels’ book he’s somewhat of a hero doing battle against Irenaus.
I’d recommend this if you are interested in the political climate of early Christianity. I’d also recommend it if you are interested in the history of Christian heresy, the discussion of the Nag Hammadi works was super neat.
I kept waiting for it to get to a grand conclusion and it was a tenuous thread at best.
That being said, the discussions on the gospels as polemics against Jews are thought provoking and timely. Over the course of bible reading I have come to loathe the epistles and Pagels takes the reader on a contextual journey of motivation for those fateful letter writers.
It’s interesting how the lens of the writer can be so influential. I read Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus several years ago and came away from that book thinking Celcus was an utter whack job. In Pagels’ book he’s somewhat of a hero doing battle against Irenaus.
I’d recommend this if you are interested in the political climate of early Christianity. I’d also recommend it if you are interested in the history of Christian heresy, the discussion of the Nag Hammadi works was super neat.
