{"id":1332,"date":"2018-02-24T14:57:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2018-02-25T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T17:02:39","slug":"book-review-divine-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/book-review-divine-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Divine Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Divine<\/p>\n

What does it mean to be happy?<\/p>\n

What does it mean to cry?<\/p>\n

How do we understand the literary concepts of comedy and tragedy – particularly in line with the notion of divinity that the message of Jesus invites us to consider?<\/p>\n

I recently read and reviewed Glen’s book from last year, ‘Love Story: The Myth that Really Happened’.<\/p>\n

This book isn’t as good. But it is probably more useful.<\/p>\n

Glen has engaged with and considered the questions, objections, weird anecdotes and biblical allusions that a whole range of people have come across. This book,\u00a0Divine Comedy<\/em>, wraps up a number of these ideas in a readable and gripping narrative. This is a beautiful commentary on the Philippian Hymn. If that doesn’t mean anything, you should read this book. If that means something, but doesn’t invite you into a better story, you should read this book.<\/p>\n

How do we decide between comedy and tragedy?<\/p>\n

How do we read books without a view on what the wider culture is doing?<\/p>\n

What is love?<\/p>\n

These three questions, I think, are engaged with in this little book.<\/p>\n

This is the Aslan of Easter books – it isn’t perfect, but it is good.<\/p>\n

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