Description
Set toward the end of the first century, this novel follows Luke as he moves among a marginal, apocalyptic Jewish sect and begins to form a close, unsettling understanding of its executed founder. As Luke investigates what happened—and what it meant—his search draws him toward Paul and toward the stories that would become the Gospels and the early epistles, turning scholarship and imagination into a living spiritual inquiry. With Emmanuel Carrère’s distinctive, literary nonfiction sensibility, the book examines how belief is built: through rumor, memory, interpretation, and the urgent need to make suffering and hope cohere. At its heart, it’s a meditation on the mechanisms of faith and the human work of transforming history into scripture, asking what “the Kingdom” promises and what it costs.
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hardcover
ALLEN LANE
Published Jan 1, 2017
406 pages
ISBN: 9780241200575
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère.