Summary
Emmanuel Carrere: Kingdom
Corinth, Greece, two thousand years ago. A poor traveling preacher, seriously ill, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, but he came back from the dead and his return is a sign of a great turning point. Like a contagion, the story spreads through the city, the country, and eventually the whole world. The kingdom is not a book of memories. It is neither a historical or cultural essay, nor a biography, nor a novel. This marvelous historical epic tells about the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, about the lives and journeys of the apostle Paul, the evangelists Luke and John. It seeks to explain how the worship that arose around the death and resurrection of the mystic and revolutionary Jesus Christ developed into a world religion, and at the same time delights us as an incredibly accessible literary masterpiece. Once an ardent believer, Emmanuel Carrere questions his own (non)belief, wonders why we believe in the resurrection and what it means.
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