![]() ![]() The suggestion that God is dead-or, at the very least, retired-has been made before, and the Devil has been a fascinating and even sympathetic character at least since Paradise Lost. There’s nothing radical in Robertson’s theology. And, of course, the Devil has made himself present and real in Gideon’s life in a way that Jesus never did. The Devil is moody and mercurial and his promises are suspiciously vague, but he is an altogether more appealing figure than the Jesus who haunted Gideon’s childhood as a sort of ghostly busybody. ![]() He doesn’t offer Gideon salvation, but adventure. The Devil does not restore Gideon’s faith in God-Satan himself has neither seen nor heard from his opposite number in quite some time-but he does tantalize Gideon with glimpses of supernatural possibility. This novel is Gideon’s life-story, from his gloomy childhood to the spiritual awakening-and rather shocking behavior-that follow his sojourn with Satan. It’s even more surprising when this minister who doesn’t believe in God meets the Devil. It comes as something of a surprise, then, when he decides to follow his father into the Church of Scotland. He gave that up as a boy, when he discovered that his schoolmates watched Batman on Sunday without suffering divine retribution, and when his own schoolyard blasphemies went unpunished. An award-winning Scottish author makes his American debut with the story of a faithless minister who befriends the Devil. ![]()
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