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Article: Poor Anne Rice.(While We're At It)(Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana)(Book review)
- Article from:
- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Poor Anne Rice. Recognizing that she does not claim to be a theologian, I had some kind words for her Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. Christopher Badeaux, writing in the Baptist magazine The City, is not prepared to let her off so easily. He allows that she obviously wants to be an orthodox Catholic, but she gets the two natures in Christ, human and divine, into a terrible muddle. He writes: "Indeed, the divine nature seems like a hectoring scold, a lumbering brute, always on the edge of breaking down poor Yeshua and destroying his psyche and his world. (Again, his terrified, weary reaction to this is what makes the human Yeshua so compelling.) This Jesus does not ...