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100	1		_aCarrère, Emmanuel, _d1957- _927432
245			_aThe kingdom / _cEmmanuel Carrère, John Lambert
260			_aNew York : _bPicador, _c2018
300			_a384 pages ; _c 21 cm
505			_a Prologue I. A Crisis II. Paul III. The Investigation IV. Luke Epilogue
520			_aGripped by the tale of a messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrère 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, Carrère 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, Carrère re-creates the climate of the New Testament with the acumen of a seasoned storyteller, interwining his own account of reckoning with the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians. An expansive and clever meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion, and the ongoing quest to find a place within in--back cover
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