I listened to the audiobook of Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt a couple of years ago.
I got it out of the library because I was looking for any audiobook in their small collection I was remotely interested in. I wasn’t at all sure I’d really want to listen to it.
I started it one day when I was bored. I found myself very much drawn into the story and unexpectedly moved by it. It was a story about Jesus as a child when he was beginning to sense he was different from others, without fully knowing why. I thought the author portrayed the loneliness of being different very well. And the historical context. And it was a well-written novel in general. This is what I wrote about the book at the time
The other day I was in a bookstore and started looking at the second book in the series, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. That interested me enough to check it out of the library and read it.
I liked the beginning part of this book a lot. It’s exciting and the author continues to depict the loneliness for Jesus of being different well. Read the rest of this entry »
08-28-2008 |
No Comments »Maybe you’ve heard of Anne Rice. She’s written a number of best-selling novels about vampires. She switched direction significantly with her latest novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.
Here’s a description of the novel from an article about Anne Rice on Christianity Today Online:
Christ the Lord tells the story of Jesus through first-person narrative, drawing on the Bible, the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas, and Catholic doctrine. Jesus is part of a large, warm extended family (in the novel, Joseph was previously married and widowed, so Rice’s Jesus has half-siblings). The family is returning to Nazareth after living in Egypt.
06-07-2006 |
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