Perpetua, a 19 year old girl from South London, says that she is
God. She gathers a motley collection of followers and begins her
travels, performing miracles and spreading her gospel of
unconditional love along the way.
Her message provokes a strong and ultimately lethal reaction
from Christianity's warring factions, politicians and journalists
bent on profit instead of the truth. Her story is told by four
people: Jack, a tabloid journalist; Claire, a social worker; Beth,
a media student; and Damian, a theology graduate and Church House
intern.
Perpetua is the first of three novels in The Third Testament for
the Third Millennium, a bold re-telling of the New Testament in a
21st Century context, asking Christians to question what they
believe and why.
Incorporating a dazzling array of artistic styles,
convention-breaking use of language and sharply drawn characters,
the series draws on its author's experience of journalism,
broadcasting and politics, and on his work as a lay minister in the
Church of England. It is profound and funny, moving and edgy,
setting out how we might better live together with more
self-restraint and less regulation.
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