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Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana

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I pre-ordered at my local bookstore, received yesterday, and couldn't put it down until way too late last night, and finished it this morning over breakfast after delivering a baby. Mrs. Rice brings us a portrayal of Jesus as a feeling, caring, joyful, sad man, who knows he is God, and is awaiting his time to begin his ministry. The story is reverent and real, not preachy with King James speech, as some otherwise good historical novels of the early church are. She brings to life the Jewish communities and cultures of the time, all from Jesus' point of view. You feel his love, joy, anger, and questioning, and that of his family and friends who know he is the Messiah, but wonder when he will live out that destiny. She gets you inside Jesus' head - what does it feel like to be in the desert after baptism, and all of a sudden have knowledge of EVERYONE's feelings and lives, that had only been hinted at before, and questions of fate and God, things like that. The theology is from a Catholic perspective, but if you didn't know that, you wouldn't feel it. (Mary is really neat, not preachy)

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Again Anne delivers some great writing and I did love the book for it's literary offering but the Roman Catholic dogma is too much to handle and I will be throwing the two books away as I do not want to promote them in the library. There are too many heretical books there already and this one would just add to the confusion. Anne writes from a deep love of writing and research but maybe not a deep love of the Savior. If she were, she would not have allowed herself to write of Mary as a perpetual Virgin. She wasn't! PERIOD! There is no where in the Scriptures were Mary was deity and not one place that states that she had but one child, Jesus. She is just like us. Sinful and in need of a Savior. Jesus called her Woman not Mother in John's Gospel. He gave her to John to be his mother and if she was to be with Jesus on the throne as co-ruler, He would have never done that. There are other errors too but this one is the most glaring. I love her writing but I don't love her errors in historical Christianity, my faith. I am not a Catholic at least not a Roman one. Catholic means "collective followers of the church". Roman is just that. Roman Catholic dogma and traditions making Holy Communion an every Sunday death of Jesus and Mary into a Virgin. Wrong and wrong! I ask Anne not to write on this subject again. She isn't qualified and she should stick to Vampires. Please no more!