Synopsis
'Heresy is a brilliant book' - The Times
'Enthralling' - The Sunday Telegraph
‘In the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This sentence – and the words of all four gospels – is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind.
Yet in the years after the death...
Details
07 March 2024384 pages
9781529040357Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Heresy is a brilliant book - sometimes frightening, occasionally funny, frequently unsettling and always a thrill to read. It probes painfully into the pathology of belief.The Times
Enthralling . . . Heresy illuminates a forgotten world - and it's an absolute pleasure to read. The Sunday Telegraph
Enthralling ... What shines through is a kind of exasperated love for the tradition in which she was raised and an impossible-to-suppress laugh at the idea of a Virgin Mary who blasts out flames from every orifice as if it were some kind of Marvel superpower.Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian
‘Brilliant, forthright and challenging … a fine book for those who like to think differently; it’s an enlightening, provocative, sharp exegesis of religious, and consequently human, history’Irish Independent
