Vincent Cunningham
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266 appearances
43 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard May 2025
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He thought you were making a mountain out of a molehill.
Not supernatural.
You know, as I was reading this book, I asked myself, if we are today in the modern world more or less inclined to believe in miracles than the contemporaries of Jesus.
Now?
You've said that you left the faith as a teenager after briefly entering it. You've been through everything in life and more that has to offer, whether it's life and loss and love and its loss and all these things, and have had an incredibly rich scholarly intellectual life. Does religion as such play any role in your life beyond its being a source of your intellectual commitment and study?
But it's not belief as such.
Tell me about that.
Well, Judaism also is the one that I know where it's closest to me. It's also a matter of its being a civilization and a language and what language is and a great deal more. It's not just do I believe in God, do I not believe in God.
Or a set of arguments.
So is it too banal to ask you if you're a Christian or not?
What does all your study and experience lead you to think what happens after we die?
And you include yourself in that.
Do you think about death a lot?
What was it?
Elaine Pagels, thank you so much.
Elaine Pagels is a professor of religion at Princeton University, and her new book is Miracles and Wonder, The Historical Mystery of Jesus. My colleague Adam Gopnik wrote a long, terrific, thoughtful piece about the book, which you can find at newyorker.com. And you can subscribe to the magazine at newyorker.com as well, newyorker.com. I'm David Remnick. Thanks so much for joining us this week.
See you next time.
From the online spectacle around Leo XIV's election to our favorite on-screen cardinals. This week on Critics at Large, we're talking all things Pope.
I'm Vincent Cunningham. Join me and my co-hosts for an episode on what can only be described as Pope Week. New episodes of Critics at Large drop every Thursday. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
Smotrich suggested planning for this is already in motion.
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