Inspired by the Devil: Part 1 - The Gospel According to Judas Iscariot - Softcover

Luguya, Joseph M.

9780971330900: Inspired by the Devil: Part 1 - The Gospel According to Judas Iscariot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971330905 ISBN 13: 9780971330900

Publisher: Original Books, 2001

Variously referred to as "Inspired by the Devil" and "The Gospel According to Judas Iscariot", Inspired by the Devil: Part I - The Gospel According to Judas Iscariot, like Mr. Luguya’s first novel Payment in Kind (Kenya Literature Bureau, 1985), is a very unusual book. But, like the latter which has found itself a "niche" in the libraries of some of America’s top universities (even though not sold in North America, Payment in Kind will be found in the collections of Harvard University’s Hollis Library, Stanford’s Socrates, Yale’s Orbis, the libraries at Columbia, Northwestern, Michigan State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UCLA, the University of Toronto, and is even available at the Toronto and New York Public Libraries), it is not a book that is likely to go unnoticed.

Inspired by the Devil: Part I - The Gospel According to Judas Iscariot is a mega-buster that theology and bible students - and even students of sociology, philosophy and psychology - one and all, perforce, are going to have to thumb through if only in order to discover first hand for themselves what it is like for the world to stumble upon diaries that were kept by, of all people, Adam and Eve! But what theologian worth his or her name is going to walk away from homilies on topics as abstruse as "the workings of grace" by, of all creatures, Diabolos!

This is one work of fiction in which Beelzebub is a full bodied character who delivers stirring sermons one moment, and brags about his role in the downfall of Man the next moment. But it is also about characters as strange as Christian Mjomba, the book’s fictitious author who confesses to being a "prisoner of his own imagination". Not at all a bad thing when it turns out that you need that sort of character to cause you to begin to realize that you really aren’t so knowledgeable in matters of theology after all because you can’t answer (not just off the bat, but even if you had a whole day) simple questions such as: Was the devil making an act faith when he proclaimed that Jesus was the Son of God!

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From the Publisher:

Mr. Mjomba, the fictitious author of the "Thesis on Original Virtue" has a special knack for getting the reader to peer into the minds of Adam and Eve as they plot their rebellion. And he excels when he describes what went on in Judas’ head as he prepared to betray his Master. An African, he berates missionaries for inferring that his people indulge in ancestral spirit worship or "animism" when all they are doing is according their departed ancestors the respect that is due to them! And Mjomba takes those who engineer "excommunications" and things like that in the Catholic Church to task for putting personal vendettas before their practice of charity and the well-being of the "Mystical Body of Christ". But he also challenges the "separated brethren" to deny that, in relative importance, the bible comes second to the church which, when defined as the Mystical Body of Christ, is almost synonymous with the "Deliverer".

For his part, Mr. Luguya allows the reader to peer into Mr. Mjomba's mind as the fictitious author dies and, an unrepentant sinner, prepares to join demons in "the pit". Inspired by the devil: Part I - The gospel According to Judas Iscariot is going to leave you a changed person.

From the Author:

The many discordant voices out there already make it pretty hard! When added to the cacophony, this particular one should make it a great deal harder, if not impossible! Isn't that what "preaching the Word of God" is all about!

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