Posted on 05/07/2005 1:12:28 PM PDT by The_Republican
NEW YORK - Vampires are usually her passion, but Anne Rice is getting biblical in her next book, due out in November from publisher Random House. "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" will tell the story of Jesus' early years in his own words.
Excerpts of a lengthy letter that will accompany advance review copies of the book this summer are published in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine.
"For over 10 years I've wanted to do this book — Jesus in his own words," Rice writes. "For five years, I've been obsessed with how to do it, and for the last three years I've been consumed with nothing else."
Rice, who has moved from New Orleans to San Diego, brought the undead back to life in the 1970s with "Interview With the Vampire."
"I'm not a priest," Rice also writes in the letter. "I can't be one. I'll never be able to go to the altar of the Lord and say the words of consecration at Mass, `This is my body. This is my blood.' No, I can't work that magnificent Eucharistic miracle. But in humility, I have attempted something transformative which we writers dare to call a miracle in the imperfect human idiom we possess. It's to bring Him here in the form a story, and that story is Christ The Lord."
Most all of her books are good.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Well as much as I like reading her work I do not want her to go there, she is a die hard liberal and is obsessed with Homosexuality. Wanna bet she tries to turn Jesus into a rainbow warrior?
My Concern exactly...
How utterly apocryphal.
Well, in "Memnoch the Devil" Lestat was transported back in time and invited by Christ to "take a sip" from His neck as he was walking up toward Calvary - a moving moment for Lestat. Sacriligious perhaps, but I like her Vampire Chronicles/books.
Yep, Rice is a Catholic. I'm not sure if she's a convert or someone who returned home as an adult.
or an apostate who wants to lay a religious foundation for the Democrats to use in 2008.
She has a poll on her website that smells like trouble brewing.
Do you think a novelist should try to play a meaningful role in politics?
http://www.annerice.com/poll.htm
That should be interesting........not long ago I read her Sleeping Beauty Trilogy. There's not telling what she'd have Jesus doing!!
I don't think you'll need to bother looking for the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur on this book. Ms. Rice is a very talented writer, and from her works I'd expect she has an attraction to Catholic things, but I'd also be shocked beyond belief to learn she was an orthodox Catholic, given what I've read of her.
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and the Essenes ???
I liked her first book, Interview with a Vampire, written during the last year of her daughter's life. The 12-year-old died of Lukemia. Rather a touching chain of events, to see her child's body destroying itself, writing about vampires who destroy.
But then she lost her mind.
The rest of her books are overblown fantasies. Reading them was like OD-ing on chocolates filled with madiera and topped with sugar orchids. In other words, they were disgusting. And they were responsible to some extent for the "Goth" craze and other negative events.
Her Jesus book will be blasphemy from cover to cover. She revels in being a bad influence on other people's children. Nasty woman.
Kind of presumptuous to say your words are Jesus's words.
I agree with most of you comment except her work. I find her work tedious, but then again I find Stephen King's work equally tedious. I guess it's just not my taste.
Well she believes in the Real Presence unlike some other "Catholics"
And your point?
"Well as much as I like reading her work I do not want her to go there, she is a die hard liberal and is obsessed with Homosexuality. Wanna bet she tries to turn Jesus into a rainbow warrior?"
Yep. Agreed. 100%.
Didn't she imply in "Memnoch the Devil" that God was evil b/c God let all the bad things happen in the world? Or was that simply Memnoch's point of view? It's been a long time since I've read it, but I seem to remember that it was pretty anti-Christian and the book seemed to favor a "yin-yang" kind of moral relativism...
It's been a long time since I've read anything of hers, actually... In my opinion she is definitely a far better writer when she's focusing on her SF/fantasy aspects of her stories. I'm not a really fan of hers anymore b/c of "memnoch".
Well, that's a blessing.
LOL! Great description.
LOL!
Jesus in his own words," Rice writes
I might invest in this new book. If nothing else, it should be interesting.
I'm one of those people who like good books/movies no matter who writes/stars. I refuse to pass up a good product because of political stance. I'm a capitalist. I like good things, and the market will solve all.
FMCDH(BITS)
Oh heck yes, I have the whole "Interview" series, but would like to read the "Memnoch" offshoot.
Psssst.....Anne. Get thee hence to a Christian book store. Buy a Bible that has red lettering in it, in the New Testament.
You'll find, ALREADY WRITTEN, the words of Jesus!!
Betcha you NEVER thought of that, huh?
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, there were many European writers (such as Huysmans) who "dabbled" in Satanism and the occult, but eventually ended up becoming Catholics. This was because they, unlike most of the people around them, at least acknowledged the supernatural world. So maybe we can hope that Anne Rice will be among them at some point in the future.
I'd believe Anne Rice had an epiphany IF she
stopped earning her living writing about the
fleshly desires of the Undead. Somehow wallowing
in the blood of the living isn't copacetic with
partaking of the Holy Eucharist and seeking
spiritual cleansing.
That may be, but she has some other beliefs that hardly seem Catholic, and she practically worshipped clinton, no?
It's been done. It's called The Bible.
>>>>In the 19th and early 20th centuries, there were many European writers (such as Huysmans) who "dabbled" in Satanism and the occult, but eventually ended up becoming Catholics. This was because they, unlike most of the people around them, at least acknowledged the supernatural world. So maybe we can hope that Anne Rice will be among them at some point in the future.
Yes, I do agree with that. She clearly has Catholic sensibilities, if not the faith in full yet.
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Rice is a Catholic?
Does the Catholic church embrace the evil things she writes in her books?
I wondered this the minute I saw the headline on Yahoo. No doubt, he will have a passionate friendship with one of the apostles.
I only liked Interview. Personally, I just think her writing style is too florid and overblown and strangely removed. Lestat was just goofy.
"I'm not a priest," Rice also writes in the letter. "I can't be one.
What makes her think that even if the Catholic Church allowed women to be ordained, she'd make the cut??
Agreed. It's fiction and I take it as such.
I have read, in the last month or so, that Rice has recently returned to her Faith and is now a deeply devoted Catholic.
Oh come on, no doubt she'll have hundreds of thousands of her fans believing that Jesus appeared to her, imploring her to write this book..... "And this is what the Lord personally instructed me to convey to all of you through my book..." Pretty see through to me... : )
No, this kind of show
has to be a buddy thing.
Like the Odd Couple.
The show would have to
feature Jesus team up with
Pilate to solve crimes!
Right. At first they don't get along, are at odds. But then circumstances force them to work out their differences to bring thugs to justice. If Touched by an Angel, Highway to Heaven, Joan or Arcadia can make it to television, so can this.
I wouldn't believe it. It's far more likely that it's a ploy to promote her newest book. Don't get me wrong, I HOPE that she is a Christian, but there's a lot of really deep anti-religion (particularly anti-organized religion... read- anti-Catholic) content in her books. I suppose I could be wrong, especially since her writings are fiction, but even allowing for some artisitic liscence, she's been no friend of the Judeo-Christian ethos.
She may be pagan or celtic or into witchcraft, but it's a huge leap to put her as a Catholic. I hope you're right, but I'd like to see her pass the test of time b4 I'd believe it- particularly given the fact that she could make a lot of money selling occultish babble to a Christian readership (see the Da Vinci Code, for example).
>>>>I have read, in the last month or so, that Rice has recently returned to her Faith and is now a deeply devoted Catholic.
So is John Kerry according the MSM. I am perfectly willing to believe that Ms. Rice may return to the faith, and that it will be deeply important to her. I am not, however, eager to read her books on theology, as I strongly doubt she has the background yet to prepare something orthodox, and all that I've read about her current worldview leads me to suspect that she is still far from Orthodox.
Obviously it is possible to be "deeply devoted" and still not be an orthodox Catholic. Moreover, too many people throw that "deeply devoted" stuff around to easily. It has beocme a meaningless description.
Perhaps Ms. Rice will surprise me, who knows.
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I, unfortunately plead complete ignorance when it comes to mormonism.... Is that what this guy said? That Jesus appeared to him???
"Mormonism began with Joseph Smith Jr. who was born on Dec. 23, 1805, in Vermont. He was the fourth child of Lucy and Joseph Smith. Joseph senior was known as a money digger and sought after buried treasure, particularly that of Captain Kidd. His mother was highly superstitious.
Joseph Smith Jr. stated that he was disturbed by all the different denominations of Christianity and wondered which was true. In 1820, when he was 14, he went into the woods to pray concerning this and allegedly God the Father and Jesus appeared to him and told him not to join any of the denominational churches.
Three years later, on Sept. 21, 1823, when he was 17 years old, an angel called Moroni, who was supposed to be the son of Mormon, the leader of the people called the Nephites who had lived in the Americas, appeared to him and told him that he had been chosen to translate the book of Mormon which was compiled by Moroni's father around the 4th century. The book was written on golden plates hidden near where Joseph was then living in Palmyra, New York. Joseph Smith said that on Sept. 22, 1827 he received the plates and the angel Moroni instructed him to begin the translation process. The translation was finally published in 1830 as the Book of Mormon. Joseph claimed that during this translation process, John the Baptist appeared to him and ordained him to accomplish the divine work of restoring the true church by preaching the true gospel which, allegedly, had been lost from the earth. ...
[Mormonism's History, CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS & RESEARCH MINISTRY]
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