The Story of Christ (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Story of Christ

'The author of this book,' so Papini himself has declared, 'wrote another some years ago, wherein he related the painful vicissitudes of a man who, for a time, strove to become God. Now, in the maturity of his years and of his conscience, he has sought to tell the story of a God who was made man.'

For more than two decades Papini has been before the public, appearing in many different lights, and as the champion of various and widely differing movements and modes of thought. As the leader of a small band of bold and rebellious spirits, he was for some time the most prolific contributor to a certain periodical, of which lie himself was the editor, and which startled Florence in the first year of the new century. Moral and philosophical problems of every description were handled by this new writer (who signed his articles Gian Falco) with a daring and originality that took one's breath away, with scathing irony and in language now sublimely poetical, now of insufferable violence, but always powerful, compelling and eloquent.

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