It is a wonderful book, in the solidity of its Chicago and wartime Navy as well as its amazing knowledge of everything from Pentecostal sects to obscure fictional works on the adventres of the post-Crucifixion Jesus. I liked not only its abundant facticity but the surprising and persuasive surreal touches - Homer's vests, Peter's sudden descent into glossolalia, the way Marsha shuffles through the luxurious carpet and makes her hair rise like a fakir's rope.
John Updike
A brilliantly illuminating metaphysical novel.
Martin Levin
New York Times Book Review
Gardner deliberately blurs the line between fiction and factuality, and the world of it characters blends readily into that of recent history. It is a book about accomodations and compromise, of bad faith among professors of all kinds, religious, political, artistic. One must admire the verve with which evasiveness, obscurity and fantasy are exposed in the various efferts to reconcile Christ and culture, miracle and law, transcendence and nature.
Martin Price
Yale Review
Martin Gardner, well-known for his "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American, is the author of many books including Science: Good, Bad and Bogus, Great Essays In Science, The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher, The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy. He is a founding Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP).