![]() ![]() The Antichrist has taken on monstrous proportions in the intervening centuries. From the earliest days, Christians believed that alongside the birth of Jesus came the emergence of a character they called Antichrist. As with the His Dark Materials trilogy, Pullman has the church in his sights.Īs an aside, the notion that Jesus had a twin is not so alien to Christian thought as it might first seem. ![]() The original, explosive spirit is dampened, perhaps even extinguished, by a nervous authority. The device immediately captures the risk inherent in religious institutions. In one moving passage, of which there are many, Christ admits, " does things out of passion, and I do them out of calculation." In other words, Jesus is the twin who lives out of his whole being, who is fully human whereas Christ is more cautious, watching life and trying to control it. Jesus is a man of penetrating wisdom Christ is pragmatic. Pullman's fictional conceit is that Mary did not have one son, but twins. His story is the Christian one – the life, death and "afterlife" of Jesus. ![]()
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