The Gnostic Gospels The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels

Wednesday, July 9, 2003

Just started this on the train today. The book explores the buried gospel texts which were discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt. These are texts, such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Truth, etc., which were suppressed by the early church for being heretical. Some of the ideas are really interesting to me, as they seem to combine Christianity with Eastern thought. I wonder what the official LDS Church position is on these texts.