Interesting review of CHRIST OUR LORD in The Independent

Independent Online Edition > Reviews:

A helpful blurb makes the link between Rice’s more usual heroes - the undead in particular and the elegantly doomed in general - and the Christian saviour. “He is the supreme supernatural hero,” it reads, “the ultimate outsider and the greatest immortal of them all.”

This promises to be theology with a twist - perhaps a not-so-good book. Christ the Lord begins teasingly enough. On the first page, the seven-year-old Jesus strikes dead another boy, a bully. Two pages later, we’re told how Jesus once fashioned clay sparrows - on the Sabbath, no less - then clapped his hands and made them fly away. And at the end of the first chapter, Jesus considerately resurrects his playground rival.

These episodes are not the product of Rice’s imagination; they’re drawn from the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas.

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