Heresy

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Frank P. Spinella. Heresy

HERESY

Preface

Acknowledgments

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A Novel

By Frank Spinella

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Moreover, because they are by nature indirect explications, stories have a capacity to stir the imagination that is not found in academic treatises. From earliest times stories have been the primary tools for conveying theological concepts, as was perhaps required by the subject matter, for which direct experience and thus direct language was lacking. This imaginative stirring has inevitably fostered greater understanding of the subject. The divine “story” was and is a collaborative one, told amongst ourselves again and again, augmented in imaginative ways. The use of story still serves that function.

This particular story would have been impossible without the encouragement of my wife, Linda. She does have theological training (a masters degree in divinity from Harvard), and if, at times, she has vaguely suspected that this book might have been an attempt to upstage her, I am confident that her suspicions are dispelled by the final product; such an attempt was clearly too feeble ever to be workable. I knew that all along. I dedicate this book to her.

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