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Missions in fiction.(Critical essay)
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International Bulletin of Missionary Research
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July 1, 2008
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Biblical portraits of the apostles are as much the products of fictional imagination as of historical fact, as are such early Christian texts as the Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity (ca. 203) and Athanasius's Life of Anthony (ca. 357). Later writers have reworked these ancient portrayals throughout the centuries, from hagiographies like Jacob de Voragine's Golden Legend (ca. 1260) to contemporary novels like Walter Wangerin Jr.'s historical drama Paul (2000) and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (2003), which depicts the apostle Peter as ambitious and misogynistic. More important, though, the lives of apostles, martyrs, and saints epitomize two interlacing themes: the inner ...
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