The Gospel of Satan
Smart, artful and grandly entertaining."
—Jim Crenner, Seneca Review
In a series of near-misadventures unfolding across the ancient Levant, the Devil, Jesus and his thirteen disciples meet with lions, lepers, prophets, prostitutes and God himself as they struggle to free themselves from the strictures of duty and fate: Jesus chafes no less under the conventional, Pauline construction of his actions than the Devil under his ontological dependence on God. In pushing the other past personal boundaries, each arrives, finally, at a deeper iteration of himself … whilst fulfilling his duty, all the same.
Gospel is a road trip story, a buddy novel. Easy Rider meets the Gospels. Part picaresque, part polemic.
About the Book
“The argument” of this book probably took hold of me a long time ago, first in some inchoate way as an altar boy backstage before mass; later as an undergraduate reading Paradise Lost with Andrew Harvey and finding the idea that all one’s actions only play into a larger design deeply hateful; later still as an inmate in federal prison struggling to reconcile my own actions with the law. Gospel is an attempt to free those passions from the bonds of faith and to affirm (perhaps) a deeper, human truth.
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