The pervasive influence of Christian morality in society. Elaine Pagels is a thorough scholar who has the difficult ability of being able to present her ideas lucidly to a non-academic audience. Using the two creation stories from Genesis, she investigates how and why our society's morals were formed as they are now. She uses historical evidence to show the changes people in the 4th Century underwent-- from hedonistic Greek lifestyles to celibate Christians. Informative and fascinating, Pagels is persuasive in her arguments on the formation of todays morality through Christianity.