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Original Title:	Gospel: A Novel
ISBN:	0312119240 (ISBN13: 9780312119249)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lucy Springbrook, Matthias, O'Hanrahan

Gospel

Wilton Barnhardt

Paperback | Pages: 816 pages

Rating: 4.31 | 562 Users | 74 Reviews

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Title	:	Gospel
Author	:	Wilton Barnhardt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 816 pages
Published	:	February 15th 1995 by Picador USA (first published April 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Religion. Historical. Thriller

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Gospel concerns the search for a lost first-century gospel of the Bible, a document that could shake the foundations of Christianity. Wilton Barnhardt's narrative races through three continents, nine countries, and dozens of colorful locales, as two character--shy theological student Lucy Dantan and hard-drinking, disillusioned ex-Jesuit Patrick O'Hanrahan--pursue rumors and clues about the gospel's whereabouts and contents. In the end, what they discover will challenge and forever change the nature of faith.

An intellectual detective story with the erudition of Umberto Eco and the grand swirling entertainment of a nineteenth-century novel, Gospel is exciting, profound, reverent, and terrifically funny.

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More of a comparative history of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, the historical doumentation of this book is dumbfounding. It provides an introduciotn to the real history of these 'major' religiongs, without casting aspersions on them at all. Built from an Indiana Jones type adventure around the world with some admittedly two-dimensional characters, it is, nevertheless, an intriguing read. The best asides in the book come from an omnipresent narrator who may or may not be God. One note:

I waver between 2.5 and closer to 3 stars. This book needed an editor, not only to trim the excessive length, but also to tame first-time author flaws such as erratic plotting and pacing, inconsistent character development, and to reign in endless, long-winded and lurid stories about Catholic saints and martyrs, early Christian church history, and a laundry list of atrocities committed by adherents of the three monotheistic religions throughout the ages that just went on and on. Despite a

The story follows two main characters, Lucy, a theological student at the University of Chicago, and the ex-Jesuit, hard-drinking professor she is sent to find in Oxford. He is on the hunt for a rumoured lost gospel, which could completely shake the foundation of Christianity. They travel in pursuit of clues for the whereabouts of the 1st century gospel, through three continents and nine countries. In between the sections of the coutries travelled, there are snippits of this gospel. I was lent

I waver between 2.5 and closer to 3 stars. This book needed an editor, not only to trim the excessive length, but also to tame first-time author flaws such as erratic plotting and pacing, inconsistent character development, and to reign in endless, long-winded and lurid stories about Catholic saints and martyrs, early Christian church history, and a laundry list of atrocities committed by adherents of the three monotheistic religions throughout the ages that just went on and on. Despite a

This book has been on my shelf since 2003 but sometimes a story has to be read at the right time when you are ready for it. I may (quite probably) have to re-read it sometime over the next 20yrs as well. This story grew on me from the 1st part when I realised what it was doing. The characters are so fallible, so real and so likeable because of this. I was variously laughing out loud, close to tears, very angry or incredibly upset. Without this review becoming longer than the book I'm going to

400 pages in, half way through and I cannot take it any more. Weak story, poorly developed characters and way too long. Interesting church history is the only reason it gets any stars

A naive Catholic grad student, an aging Theology professor, and a Brooklyn rabbi go on a wild chase across three continents in search of a lost Christian gospel. This is the novel that The Da Vinci Code only dreamed of being, and it's a crime that the author is not better known.