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The Kingdom audiobook

  • By: Emmanuel Carrere
  • Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Category: Fiction, Historical
  • Length: 16 hours 25 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
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The Kingdom Audiobook Summary

A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world

Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrere revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrere ferries readers through his “doors” into the biblical narrative. Once inside, he follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith’s founding.

Shouldering biblical scholarship like a camcorder, Carrere recreates the climate of the New Testament with the acumen of a seasoned storyteller, intertwining his own reckoning of the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians. Carrere puts himself in the shoes of Saint Paul and above all Saint Luke, charting Luke’s encounter with the marginal Jewish sect that eventually became Christianity and retracing his investigation of its founder, an obscure religious freak who died under notorious circumstances.

Boldly blending scholarship with speculation, memoir with journalistic muckraking, Carrere sets out on a headlong chase through the latter part of the Bible, drawing out protagonists who believed they were caught up in the most important events of their time.

An expansive and clever meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion and the ongoing quest to find a place within it.

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The Kingdom Audiobook Narrator

Stefan Rudnicki is the narrator of The Kingdom audiobook that was written by Emmanuel Carrere

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

About the Author(s) of The Kingdom

Emmanuel Carrere is the author of The Kingdom

The Kingdom Full Details

Narrator Stefan Rudnicki
Length 16 hours 25 minutes
Author Emmanuel Carrere
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date May 03, 2024
ISBN 9781441743831

Subjects

The publisher of the The Kingdom is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical

Additional info

The publisher of the The Kingdom is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781441743831.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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