The Princeton professor emeritus Elaine Pagels, who has written many imposing and engrossing books on early Christianity ... in Padua—telling the Christ story from birth to murder to light ...

The story of Jesus, told through the eyes of Charles Dickens, that nobody asked for.

Over the course of her extraordinary career, she has written wide-audience books including “Origin ... But the moral of the story is clear: Christ’s story is an iconic tale of hope emerging ...