The Jesus Mysteries:

Elaine Pagels, one of the foremost academic authorities on early Christianity writes:

"It is the winners who write history- their way. No wonder, then, that the traditional accounts of the origins of Christianity first defined the terms (naming themselves "orthodox" and their opponents "heretics"); then they proceeded to demonstrate - at least to their own satisfaction- that their triumph was historically inevitable, or, in religious terms, "guided by the Holy Spirit." But the discoveries (of the Gnostic gospels) at Nag Hammadi reopen fundamental questions."