Elaine Pagels' 2025 Book Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus, and Walter J. Ong's Thought

Abstract

In my wide-ranging 8,925-word review essay "Elaine Pagels' 2025 Book Miracles and Wonder: The historical Mystery of Jesus, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I first succinctly highlight some of my recent OEN article online to establish my larger cultural contaxt for my discussion of Pagels' new 2025 book. My larger cultural context for discussing her new 2025 book includes highlighting (1) certain aspects of thought of the Swiss psychiatrist and psychological theorist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961); (2) certain aspects of the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter Jackson Ong, Je. (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) of Saint Louis University, the Jesuit university in the City of St. Louis, Missouri; (3) certain aspects of the porn work of the 5'4" tall now-retired American pornstar Mandy Flores (born on March 19, 1989; with measurements of 39-24-34, according to the anonymous entry about her in Babepedia online). Next, in the latter part of this 8,925-word review essay, I succinctly highlight Pagels' new 2025 book Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus. In this review essay, I mention Pagels' name 73 times; Jung's name 27 times (but all in connection with the same things); Ong's name 21 times; and Mandy Flores' name 32 times.