If i know your sect, i anticipate your argument, emerson said, and those who know philip pullmans sect will readily anticipate the argument of his latest novel, the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ. Apr, 2010 philip pullman reading an excerpt from jesus in the garden at gethsemane, from his new novel the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ, filmed by mike paterson on behalf of canongate books. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ throws fresh light on who jesus was and asks the reader questions that will continue to resonate long after the final page is turned. The good man jesus and the scoundrel christ unabridged, audiobook. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, the good.
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The good man jesus and the scoundrel christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from bestselling and famously atheistic author philip pullman. Apr 03, 2010 the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ by philip pullman. The good man jesus and the scoundrel christ king county. One is destined to go down in history and the other to be forgotten.
Written with unstinting authority, the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a beloved author, a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the good book itself. For, above all, this book is about how stories become stories. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. Listen to the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ by philip pullman available from rakuten kobo. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ throws fresh light on who jesus was. Paperback published in 2010, 080212996x hardcover published in 2010, 0857860070 paperback. Written with unstinting authority, the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a beloved author, a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the good. The good man jesus and the scoundrel christ philip pullman author, narrator. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ throws fresh light on who j. The good man jesus and the scoundrel christ central. While christopher hitchens, author of god is not great, praised pullmans his dark materials, he was more critical of the good man jesus and the scoundrel christ, accusing pullman of being a protestant atheist for supporting the teachings of christ but being critical of organised religion.
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