".Paghels, who is mentioned in the opening paragraph, is an interestng scholar."
Elaine Pagels is the worst sort of Gnostic heretic!!!!!!!! I'd call her "post modern", but she's just a plain old fashioned Gnostic.
Yes she is. Old heresies keep rearing their ugly heads.
We Christians need to remember that these heresies have been popular in times past and in each instance the Church
both Orthodox and Catholic answered and refuted these heresies.