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September 06, 2010
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The Gospel of the Second Coming
By Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
by Review by Craig Shafer
Scholars have recently uncovered the mysterious Gnostic gospels, causing a flood of revisionist writings about Jesus Christ. These discoveries have revitalized academic thinking. However, until now, the whole affair has been just a little stiff and contentious.

Enter popular authors (and bona fide scholars) Timothy Freke and Peter Gancy with their slant on the controversies of Gnosticism — The Gospel of the Second Coming. On the cover is the catch-phrase, “Jesus is back… and this time he’s funny!” That’s a clue this book isn’t your traditional, dry-as-dust religious treatise.

In this story, supposedly a long-lost text found in the Vatican, Christ is upbeat and funny (“speaking in a Barry White voice”), yet intones the great wisdom and spiritual guidance that is the foundation for Christianity. Written as wry dialogue among Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Peter, we learn, among other things, the “Second Coming has already happened.”

Satirical, irreverent and brimming with truth and wisdom, The Gospel of the Second Coming ought to reside on the bookshelf of anyone with a buoyant view of religion.

Available in hardcover at $24.95.