Comments on: Book Review: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt

By: Anne Rice « The Old Perspective

Anne Rice « The Old Perspective — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:53:03 +0000

[...] ago I read Anne Rice’s “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt” and wrote some thoughts here on the blog. Recently I saw this video of her sharing how she returned to the Roman Catholic church after 38 [...]

By: Brother BILL

Brother BILL — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:56:17 +0000

I have a stack of about 25 books I need to wade through by June, and another 100 or so on my list to be read by the end of the year – this one just got added to the list…thank goodness for Half Price Books…

By: M

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:29:23 +0000

I thought this book was very enjoyable in the same way as “The Nativity”, very interesting in learning about the lifestyle of the people of the time. Since this is a work of fiction I did read it with a grain of salt and I felt I learned some things. The Author’s Note in the paperback edition went into great detail about how Anne Rice researches and also about her spiritual transformation, both were fascinating. In addition there was an Author’s Note to the paperback edition talking about people’s interest in her spiritual journey with more detail that was very thought provoking.

By: Brother BILL

Brother BILL — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:10:34 +0000

Great post! I’ve followed Rice’s personal story for the last 5 years-at one point I was praying for her to come to Christ. To discover that she was moving away from darkness to the Light (quite literally – vampires to Christ) was a big deal for me. About 5 years ago I read her vampire series on a whim, just to see what all of the fuss was about. The first novel was written in the early 80s, and as the series progressed it was obvious that some type of personal crisis was taking place in her life. She kept dwelling on the subject of personal redemption, while at the same time bringing up topics prohibited by the Catholic Church. Her husband died, and then a year or two ago I read an interview with her where she wouldn’t stop talking about Christ. I hope she found her redemption…
I would argue (as a limited human) that these works have the potential to be incredibly distracting to new Christians as well as unbelievers. They can be especially detrimental when readers take them as 100% fact. Case in point: “The Da Vinci Code” (which is deserving of it’s own post, at which point I will write a 200 page comment) has been brought up to me so many times as a challenge to the Deity of Christ, despite the fact that the author is a) verbally anti-Church, anti-Christian, anti-God, etc. and b) the entire premise of the story is based on a single misspelled word in a document written the 15th century. Additionally, as it is with the Internet itself, I think that most people who read literature along these lines choose them because they already believe (to a certain extent) or they are hoping to tear them apart to find inconsistencies.
HOWEVER – with this being said, God’s Word will not return to Him void, and I do believe that secular fiction can be used to bring souls to Him, just as it can be used to attack him…
Completely unrelated – check to make sure you have my email address right – I didn’t get your initial email…