- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: Mandarin; New edition edition (9 May 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0413552306
- ISBN-13: 978-0413552303
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 913,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered. It is Mary Magdalene's account of Christ's teaching and her relationship with him, and it unveils a new Christianity which embraces the female equally with the male. The author won the 1992 W.H. Smith Literary Award.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I initially read this book because my Religious Studies teacher and my strictly-Christian best friend both hated it and I wanted to annoy them. I'm not usually a fan of feminist literature, but this book is loosely based on Gnostic teachings rather than feminist theology.
It is fiction though, as much as I would like to believe that Christianity could have turned out like this. Read it more as an alternate world view. The plot revolves around the traditional Easter story, but written from Mary Magdelan's point of view. It also tells of her relationship with Jesus which is probably the most controversial part. Mary's character is padded out to become very real, as are the other women who appear as faceless minorities in the Gospels themselves. As well as retelling the story that everyone gets drilled into them year after year at school, Roberts gives a good and well-researched insight into the attitudes of society at the time.
This is recommended for everyone at all interested in religion, and a must for open-minded Christians!
It is fiction though, as much as I would like to believe that Christianity could have turned out like this. Read it more as an alternate world view. The plot revolves around the traditional Easter story, but written from Mary Magdelan's point of view. It also tells of her relationship with Jesus which is probably the most controversial part. Mary's character is padded out to become very real, as are the other women who appear as faceless minorities in the Gospels themselves. As well as retelling the story that everyone gets drilled into them year after year at school, Roberts gives a good and well-researched insight into the attitudes of society at the time.
This is recommended for everyone at all interested in religion, and a must for open-minded Christians!
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed reading this. Even if you're not interested in religion it's basically a fantastic story, well told, with fascinating characters. The prose is rich enough to give weight and draw you in without being too worthy.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
The Fifth Gospel
5 April 1999
Format:Hardcover
For those who were raised studying the four Gospels, this book offers a plausible and delicious alternative. The story of the life of Jesus told by the woman who first saw the miracle of the resurrection. Beautifully written (as one has come to expect from Roberts) and neatly wound together. I have lent this book out to many friends, and no one has ever returned it to me disappointed.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The tantric love affair between Jesus and Mary Magdalene
10 Mar 2002
Format:Paperback
In the list of my three favorite books (together with Jean Liedloff: "The Continuum Concept" and John Welwood: "Journey of the Heart"), this one comes first. It is the lost fifth gospel. The wild girl is Mary Magdalene, and she describes her tantric love relationship with Jesus. It is all about the union of the inner man and the inner woman in the inner marriage chamber of the heart. Resurrection and eternal life are not following cruzifixion and physical death, but they are following love and spiritual union, that may also be reflected in physical union. This is the female point of view of Mary Magdalene, in opposite to the male point of view of Simon Petrus. Really great stuff! The story is very touching. It gives no easy solutions. But it shows a clear direction.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Provocative and thought provoking
23 Mar 1999
Format:Hardcover
How will words justify the rights and wrongs of a life that lives for both sexual love and spiritual love, where sexual love is not just at the debased level of mere lust, but an entry point into greater experiences of understanding the power of love in a restless individual's life. The lady in the story is or suppose to be a person in history. This story promises to be provocative in the sense of the bigger ideas it challenges and tests - against the average man in town, or conventional reader. The story is set in a time between 0 and 1st century AD.
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