Friday, October 06, 2006

Elaine Pagels Leaves Questions Unanswered

A response from Dr. Robert Osburn and Pete Lackey of the MacLaurin Institute to the Elaine Pagels lecture at Tedd Mann Concert Hall, University of Minnesota (Oct. 6, 2006).

At noon today (October 6) in the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the University of Minnesota’s West Bank, Princeton New Testament scholar Elaine Pagels lived up to her billing. “She makes the profound accessible,” said Dr. Phil Sellew, University of Minnesota religious studies professor as he introduced Dr. Pagels, who still has six scholarly texts in print. What she failed to do was to offer answers to important questions that many thoughtful New Testament readers would ask...

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