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# The Kingdom: A Novel Hardcover – March 7, 2017

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An unorthodox view of the New Testament
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018*

Excellent read. Weather you are a Christian or not, this book will give you a lot of food for thought. It provides a unique interpretation of the New Testament. You will not agree with every point the author makes, but you will acknowledge it is well thought out.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Personal Journey
  

*by J***D on Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2017*

Emmanuel Carrere's journey is one that has been followed by many thousands of fellow seekers over the centuries.  He underwent an intense period of religious fervor nearly thirty years ago which gradually subsided into an uneasy agnosticism: while he rejects what he views as ridiculous about organized religion, he still feels a hunger for faith.  His history/memoir The Kingdom is a similarly uneasy combination of history and memoir, combined with fictional reconstructions of the early days of Christianity.  This is a subject that has long fascinated me as well, and thus I enjoyed his chronicle of his own, very personal, journey.The Kingdom includes long segments of Carrere's own story as he drifts into and then back out of religious faith.  Some of his biographical details can be jarring: I did not care for his lengthy discussion of his interest in and experience with internet pornography, for example.  But all of it, including the porn, is connected in some form to his religious quest.  The most interesting sections of The Kingdom are those in which Carrere uses fiction to relate the story of the development of early Christianity, particularly discussing the careers of the Apostles Paul and Luke.  I enjoyed the human touches he employed, including his imaginings of Luke's journeys to meet and interview people like Zaccheus who spoke with Jesus.People who have already studied the early history of Christianity will not see a lot of new material in The Kingdom, but what is fresh is Carrere's personal story. His Epilogue is particularly interesting as a bridge between late first century Christians and early twenty-first century believers and agnostics.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A very personal but informed meditation on early Christian history
  

*by J***G on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2017*

This is a fascinating sandwich of a book. By which I mean that there are slices of the author’s life and slices of his (well-informed) view of the lives of the evangelist Luke and the apostle Paul, as well as some other more minor characters in the drama of the origins of Christianity.The first slice of autobiography is rather thick, about 75 pages, but we find that he went through an earlier period of intense Christian religiosity, followed by a gradual progression to agnosticism (which perhaps is the correct term—Carrère is not very specific about his current world view). Thus, he does not come at the book’s subject from ignorance, but from years of absorption in it. Later slices of autobiography describe what is going on in his life as he writes the book. Readers (including me) who are more interested in the subject of Christian origins than in the author’s life might become rather impatient with these parts of the sandwich, but Carrère uses them in an inventive way by playing his personal experiences off the characters of Luke and Paul in order to bring them more to life than we usually see them portrayed. He almost writes as though the screenwriter and director in him is producing a film in which he tags along with the two ancients, experiencing the Mediterranean world of the first century CE at first hand.The publisher’s blurb calls the book “a sweeping fictional account of the early Christians,” but it is only fictional in the sense that Carrère fills the gaps in what the historical record tells us about his two characters and the world they lived in with some speculation. However, his surmises are quite credible to this reader, as are his considerable deviations from the conventional tellings of the “greatest story ever told” that one can still hear today from most persons of the cloth and even from many pedigreed scholars of Christian history. Those who are convinced of these widely-believed pieties may be shocked by the book, but it is one that any open-mined person will learn much from.

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