«"For me, the core of the novel [The Gospel According to Jesus Christ] is when Jesus, at fourteen years old, goes to the temple in Jerusalem to talk about guilt and responsibility. He doesn't find any doctor, but rather a scribe. In the book, Jesus inherits the guilt of his father, who failed to save the children [in the episode of the massacre of the innocents]. When he asks the scribe what this thing called guilt is, the scribe tells him: 'Guilt is a wolf that devours the father as it devours the son.' That is to say, the belief implies that children inherited the guilt of their parents. From a certain point on, it was no longer clear what the concrete guilt was. The feeling of guilt, which we don't know why or how it was born, how it became ingrained in us, is much worse than concrete guilt. Then, Jesus asks him: 'Were you also devoured?' And the scribe replies: 'Not only devoured, but also vomited out.'" The relationship with God is framed in terms of guilt, as is fundamentally the case throughout Christianity and Judaism.“
Foundation

Dimensions: 142 x 210 x 27 mm

Pages: 448