It is more than a little ironic, and more than a little disturbing, that some of the most prominent “Christian” scholars in the world are not Christian at all. At least, not by a definition that would require their assent to the doctrines outlined in the historic creeds and confessions. To the contrary, many of the most significant scholars at the most significant universities tend to deny the doctrines of the Trinity, of the divinity of Jesus Christ, of his virgin birth, of his atoning death, and of his resurrection. Their interest in Christianity is often more in undermining or deconstructing it than in teaching or defending it.
This is exactly the case with Karen King, long-time Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University—the oldest endowed chair in the United States (1721) and undoubtedly one of its most distinguished. She has committed her career to studying the Gnostic gospels and to attempting to show how they are not only consistent with the established biblical canon, but even superior. A feminist as much as a theologian, King has had a special interest in attempting to prove that these books were suppressed by the early church precisely because they challenged
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