'A masterly work of demystifying iconoclasm.' Patrick Skene Catling, Spectator
A. N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.
A.N. Wilson writes like an angel
*New Statesman and Society*
Those exceptional talents displayed in his biographies are combined
with those equally splendid gifts of imaginative writing which
characterise his novels
*Literary Review*
Many aspects of Wilson's book will anger or amuse believing
Christians and serious New Testament scholars... Anybody who knows
the Gospels at all should find their understanding much challenged
and enriched by this book
*Guardian*
He writes beautifully... I found myself carried along on page after
page
*Mail on Sunday*
A.N. Wilson's Jesus is a very good book indeed... His novelist's
instinct is alert to the little details which bring Jesus to
life...[it is] an excellent read and sends you scurrying back to
buy the Gospels
*Daily Telegraph*
A.N. Wilson writes like an angel * New Statesman and Society *
Those exceptional talents displayed in his biographies are combined
with those equally splendid gifts of imaginative writing which
characterise his novels * Literary Review *
Many aspects of Wilson's book will anger or amuse believing
Christians and serious New Testament scholars... Anybody who knows
the Gospels at all should find their understanding much challenged
and enriched by this book * Guardian *
He writes beautifully... I found myself carried along on page after
page -- William Westwood, Bishop of Peterborough * Mail on Sunday
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A.N. Wilson's Jesus is a very good book indeed... His
novelist's instinct is alert to the little details which bring
Jesus to life...[it is] an excellent read and sends you scurrying
back to buy the Gospels * Daily Telegraph *
Wilson begins the preface of his life of Jesus with, ``The Jesus of History, and the Christ of Faith are two separate beings, with very different stories.'' Wilson, current literary editor of The Evening Standard , novelist, journalist, and biographer of Tolstoy and C.S. Lewis, writes clearly and imaginatively. However, his admittedly speculative reconstruction of the gospels and extrabiblical sources sheds little light on the figure of Jesus. Many of his interpretations reveal a limited familiarity with biblical scholarship. In addition, he frequently lapses into making sensational assertions as insupportable as those he criticizes. Not an essential purchase.-- Cynthia Widmer, Downingtown, Pa.
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