What happens when one of Germany\'s most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice and lamentation, love and wonder, the irrational and the unfathomable, the deeply human and the divine - a Christianity that today\'s Christians rarely speak of so earnestly, boldly and enthusiastically.
With the open-minded curiosity of a non-believer - or rather a believer in another faith.
What happens when one of Germany\'s most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice and lamentation, love and wonder, the irrational and the unfathomable, the deeply human and the divine - a Christianity that today\'s Christians rarely speak of so earnestly, boldly and enthusiastically