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Christopher Lucas is an American journalist living in Jerusalem and looking for a story. He has quit his "comfortable and rather prestigious newspaper job" and now scrambles as a free-lancer. This job change has left him unsettled: "It was so hard to get it right, working without the assignment, the rubric, the refuge of a word count. No one behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Question of Faith | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

Inventing a terrorist conspiracy and then setting it in contemporary Jerusalem may seem a coals-to-Newcastle sort of enterprise. Why bother with make-believe when the reality is so vivid and convoluted? Robert Stone provides an engrossing answer in his sixth novel, Damascus Gate (Houghton Mifflin; 500 pages; $26). All of Stone's previous fiction has featured heroes whose problems are implicitly religious. Their pathologies--the heavy ingestion of drugs and booze, the habit of seeking or stumbling into serious, life-threatening trouble--stem from their uneasy sense that God still exists, but not for them. Damascus Gate makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Question of Faith | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

Another problem Lucas faces is that everyone he meets in Jerusalem asks him about his religion. The question troubles him because he can answer it only in the past tense: "My father was a nonpracticing Jew. My mother was a sentimental Catholic." What he has inherited from his parents continues to elude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Question of Faith | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

Early in the story Lucas hears of Dr. Pinchas Obermann, who treats victims of the Jerusalem Syndrome. The journalist hears the term from a friend and asks, "Which is?" The reply: "Which is coming here and God gives you a mission. To Christians like your good self, only crazy ones." Lucas later meets Obermann and accompanies him on his rounds with his hospitalized patients: "They met some famous figures from Scripture. Noah was present, glancing uneasily at the smoggy sky. Samson, unbound but closely supervised in a room of his own, sneered at Lucas's philistine lack of conditioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Question of Faith | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...time when U.S. politicians, despite their misgivings, fell in behind the White House in its dealings with foreign countries has long gone: Newt Gingrich arrives in Israel tomorrow, and his guns are already blazing -- at President Clinton. An op-ed article he wrote for today?s Jerusalem Post offers reasons for the Netanyahu government to reject Washington?s compromise ultimatum on troop withdrawal from the West Bank. ?[Israel] cannot replace its generals' judgments on security concerns with the optimism of those who have never faced a threat to their survival,? wrote Gingrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newt Blazes the Mideast Campaign Trail | 5/22/1998 | See Source »

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