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...shining. "[It's] the greatest story of our time, the one that will dazzle the entire Christian world, the one that will cause a rebirth in religion and a revival of faith. The papyri that were found-that we now possess-are the lost source of the Synoptic Gospels, the so-called Q document, a fifth but actually the first and original Gospel-the Gospel According to James...
...does not quite happen that way in real life, of course. Even in Wallace's overblown novel, the "Gospel According to James" turns out to be a possible forgery. But just as the source of the Nile was an irresistible magnet for 19th century explorers, the sources of the four Gospels that relate the life of Jesus remain irresistible lures to 20th century biblical scholars, and every so often some patient scriptural sleuth turns up another important piece of evidence. Recently, a Roman Catholic scholar arrived at a finding that could turn out to be this century...
...Gospel Concert by The Kuumba Singers. St. Paul A.ME. Church. 7:30, April 22. Free...
...moviemaker; in Winchester, England. A devout Methodist with a family fortune derived from flour mills, J. (for Joseph) Arthur Rank entered the film business in the '30s to produce pictures that would compete with Hollywood and be morally uplifting. "I believe the best way we can spread the gospel of Christ," he said, "is through films." He made such classics as Great Expectations, Hamlet and In Which We Serve, and increased his fortune to an estimated $250 million...
...comes the twist: The p.r. man stumbles on evidence that the Gospel according to James may be a monstrous forgery. Deviled by doubt, haunted by hope, he enters an investigation that un foldsas an absorbing theological thriller. So absorbing in fact that readers may wonder if there isn't a misprint on the title page. There isn't. This entertaining puzzler was actually produced by Irving Wallace...