Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frustrated Republicans may flirt with the idea of a late-entry Gingrich candidacy, but that doesn't spell a mutiny. Of the two leaders, Dole is more popular, with favorable-impression ratings around 42%, compared with Gingrich's 35%. And even staunchly conservative members of the Christian Coalition are prepared to work with Dole in the belief that he stands the best chance of unseating Clinton...
...Elaine Pagels. Her much honored 1979 work, The Gnostic Gospels, was one of the rare volumes of religious scholarship to find a general readership. In her new book, The Origin of Satan (Random House; $23), Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University, examines how the earliest Christians made their opponents out to be the devil. First the Jews who spurned Christ, then the Romans who persecuted his followers, then other Christians who departed from the orthodoxies of the newly consolidating church -- each group in turn, she says, appears in early Christian texts not just as a philosophical contender...
...those writings Pagels finds the sources of the durable Western practice of demonizing one's opponent, whether they be Reformation Protestants or gay activists or the Evil Empire. "It's important for those of us who grew up with the Jewish and Christian traditions to know how they structure the way we think,'' she says. "Especially when we are thinking politically and socially...
This is the third provocative reconsideration of early Christian belief by Pagels, 52, an Episcopal churchgoer, though not one who counts herself a conventional believer. In The Gnostic Gospels, about the early Christian sect whose members aimed at mystical communion of the individual with God, Pagels set out a scriptural alternative that was shunned from the outset by the institutional church. In 1988 she published Adam, Eve and the Serpent, a study of the influential way St. Augustine read the Garden of Eden story as a symbol of man's fall, though some earlier Christians had seen...
Former student William A. Christian Jr. '65 recalled how Wylie encouraged his students to listen carefully and to help each other...