"My purpose and effort in writing this 'holy history' was always to persuade the reader to feel - to experience, in fact and in spirit - this, the greatest of stories."Walter Wangerin's innovative, dramatic and beautifully-written retelling of the Bible - from the Creation to the Acts of the Apostles - in the style of an epic novel has sold over one and a half million copies worldwide. "The sermon on the mount happens to be the passage in the authorized King James Version of the Bible that I seek out most often in my worldly, atheistic way. I would not want to upset anyone, but Wangerin's account is better."