[bronx2]

What is a troubling aspect concerning the Gnostics is the lack of refutation to those who, in the last forty years, claimed that Catholicism/Orthodoxy hijacked Christianity in the first century at the expense of the Gnostics. In her famous work The Gnostic Gospels, which served as her PHD thesis at Harvard, Elaine Pagels ignored the the anti semitsm and misogyny of the Gnostics and attributes all blame for the problems of Chritainity on Catholicism.

One would think that the mega billions spent on Catholic colleges and universities in the last hundred years would have served as a platform to refute Pagels. Instead their was silence and non Catholic historians filled this void with refutation of her silly opinions. Finally in 2005 a Jesuit in Rome explained how Pagels had exercised academic fraud in the writing of her aforementioned seminal work. I can't understand how complicit the Church has been in allowing these attacks on Catholicism/Orthodoxy to go unanswered in the last forty years. Catholic educational institutions could produce Madonna, Lady GA GA and sexual misconduct but no refutation of those committed to destroy the word of God.

[Cronos]

true — The Church needs to refute these allegations immediately. But then the incredulous think that there’s a cover-up and the standard anti-Church baiters will come out

[jmc159]

Do you have any more info on this Jesuit who exposed Pagels as a fraud? Thanks!