[My2Cents]

I suspect she rejects Paul, because he "hated women."

[Kolokotronis]

"I suspect she rejects Paul, because he "hated women.""

Maybe, but I got the impression that like so many "mainline" Christians, she really thinks she is ever so much more enlightened and sensitive to the "spirit" (which spirit I don't know, but I can guess) by reason of her educated freedom and status as a "liberated person" than the benighted ignorant slobs who kept the Faith alive for 2000 years. She, Prof Pagels, unlike +Paul Justin Martyr, +Athanasius, +Irenaeus, etc, etc could see through the plots of the early churchmen and divine the true light of Gnosis in the spurious works of heretics. Gnosticism has great appeal for "intellectuals" who fill themselves with pride about their ability to think independently. Like I said, self absorbed garbage.