by Philip Pullman
A clever re-telling of the Christ story with Jesus and Christ being two separate men
This retelling of the story of Jesus' life is part of the Myth series that gave us Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood and Jeanette Winterson's Atlas. I chose it because I love Philip Pullman, and will read anything that he writes. I know that it is controversial for some Christians (who Pullman had alr...
An interesting and provocative retelling of the gospels. Pullman does a fine job of skewering the absurdities and hnypocrisies of organized religion as he does in His Dark Materials trilogy.
Absolutely riveting re-imagining of the Jesus story, with lots of recourse to the Gnostic Gospels. The conceit here is that Jesus and Christ are twins, and Jesus is the guy with the message- the guy who heals the sick, the guy who has that no-nonsense spirituality one might recognize from parts of t...