I finished "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" and I am still trying to absorb it. It is like she has reached into the first century and created a world to get lost in. I am joyful at the way that she has portrayed Jesus, fully human and fully divine, seeking to come to terms with what that might mean as a child. She portrays that time with the violence and turbulence and uncertainty that may, at times, bother the reader. But that is where the power lies, a conviction of Jesus as a real person in a real place at a real time.
I am very much looking forward to the next volume of this work.
I was moved by a section in the Note on the Paperback Edition, which I have. As she describes her conversion, or perhaps reversion experience, returning to the fold, I was struck by the parallels to the last chapters of Job. Now Anne Rice has not had the life of Job, but God's words at the end, describing God's relationship to the powers of all and everything, compared to the life of Job, resonated with what I was reading from Anne Rice's own life.
It is a powerful witness of the Holy Spirit to truly try and lose yourself in the grand mystery of God's creation.
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