PositiveThe Financial Times...a gripping history of the Jesus story ... A celebration of religious imagination — Catholic, French, Judaic, Hellenic — The Kingdom has been a runaway bestseller in France. In Britain, it may succeed as a relief and an antidote. For two decades now, the New Atheism debate has dominated British religion lists, while the current spate of books on the Reformation published to coincide with its quincentenary seems to be prompting as much reflection on Brexit as on matters spiritual. All of this is a world away from Carrère’s take on the Christian experience as a drama of the individual soul.
