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Anne Rice explores Jesus’ public ministry in new novel
Posted on Feb 28, 2008 10:55am CST.| NCR Book Club |
By BENEDICTA CIPOLLA, Religion News Service
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CHRIST THE LORD: THE ROAD TO CANA By Anne Rice Knopf, 256 pages, $25.95 |
Don’t ask Anne Rice about “The Da Vinci Code” unless you want an earful.
Rice, who returned to the Catholic Church in 1998 and abandoned vampires, her former stock in trade, soon after, calls it a “load of nonsense.”
Her latest novel, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, is in many ways an orthodox response to the popular thriller that imagined Jesus and Mary Magdalene married.
Firing a direct salvo at “Da Vinci,” Rice states in her author’s note: “It is more than ever important to affirm our belief in Christ as sinless and unmarried because that is the way the gospels present him.”
