The Kingdom
| Author | : Emmanuel Carrère |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780374184308 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0374184305 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (305 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Kingdom written by Emmanuel Carrère and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A ... fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world ... With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carraere ferries readers through his 'doors' into the biblical narrative. Once inside, he follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith's founding. Shouldering biblical scholarship like a camcorder, Carraere re-creates the climate of the New Testament with the acumen of a ... storyteller, intertwining his own account of reckoning with the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians"--