The Kingdom - Emmanuel Carrre
Category: Art
Tags: Art, Autobiography & Biographies
A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world., Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrre revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrre ferries listeners through his doors into the biblical narrative. Once inside, he follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faiths founding., Shouldering biblical scholarship like a camcorder, Carrre recreates the climate of the New Testament with the acumen of a seasoned storyteller, intertwining his own reckoning of the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians. Carrre puts himself in the shoes of Saint Paul and above all Saint Luke, charting Lukes encounter with the marginal Jewish sect that eventually became Christianity and retracing his investigat
