02699cam a2200373 i 4500 3862 FISKH 20240520085637.0 141211s2014 fr g 000 0afre d 2014493075 9782818021187 (pbk.) 2818021189 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn889705394 AUXAM eng AUXAM rda ERASP OKU C3L OCLCQ UBY OCLCO UPM DLC lccopycat PQ2663.A7678 Z46 2014 843.914 Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957- author. Le royaume / Emmanuel Carrère. Paris : P.O.L, [2014] 630 pages : 21 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world. Gripped 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, intertwining his own account of reckoning with the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians. Carrère puts himself in the shoes of Saint Paul and above all Saint Luke, charting Luke's encounter with the marginal Jewish sect that eventually became Christianity, and retracing his investigation of its founder, an obscure religious freak who died under notorious circumstances. Boldly blending scholarship with speculation, memoir with journalistic muckraking, Carrère sets out on a headlong chase through the latter part of the Bible, drawing out protagonists who believed they were caught up in the most important events of their time. An expansive and clever meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion, and the ongoing quest to find a place within it."-- Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957- Authors, French 20th century Biography Authors, French 21st century Biography Jewish Christians History. Christian civilization History. 7 cbc copycat 3 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 3862 3862 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC 001 001 RKTK1 2024-05-20 0 CAR 843.914 PQ2663.A7678 2024-0642 2024-05-20 08:56:32 2024-05-20 BK