![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The weirdness of Christianity felt like an important thing to communicate.” “The book is about not only Christian storytelling but storytelling in general and the meaning we arrive at through characters we create and then send hurtling through time whether they’re fiction characters in a novel or Christian characters of legend,” said Bissell, who has written for the New Yorker and other magazines. Early Christian stories written before the New Testament, he said, were the “first fan fiction.” Deciding, however, that ridicule might not make a good thesis, Bissell amassed thousands of pages of text and visited nine countries in a study that blends travelogue with a vivid mosaic of emperors, evangelists and schisms that bent the course of history. “Apostle” started as a critique of what Bissell regarded as nonsensical beliefs predicated on apocryphal yarns that included talking animals and necrophilia. ![]()
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