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Trailing
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 Dreams.
Nightmares. Religion. Revolution. Divinity. Evil. Temptation.
Hope. Murder. Mysticism. Faith. Oppression. Memories. Visions.
Passion. History. Lies. Truth. Forgiveness.
In
the spring of 1996, James Campion immersed himself in the thorny
subject of humanity's mad pursuit of an origin and purpose to
existence. Intrigued by the life and teachings of philosophical
and spiritual leaders over the centuries and fueled by a questioning
of his devout Catholic background lead to a natural exploration
of Jesus Christ from revolutionary vagabond to religious icon.
Carving out images from his past and passionately delving into
the gospel legend prompted a tireless journey to the Holy Land.
Across the desert, in the footsteps of the mysterious, inside
the mind and out of the heart, the results of his trek are found
in the introspective and controversial pages of Trailing Jesus.
It
is more than a true story of self-discovery and Biblical revelations.
It is literally a lifetime dissected in a single trip. Mostly
it is an emotional investigation of one of the most enigmatic
spiritual leaders in the pantheon of human experience; a controversial
view of Jesus of Nazareth, the peasant messiah whose spiritual
revolution is still prevalent after two thousand years. The Greatest
Story Ever Told is understood quite differently through the eyes
of an author in search of spirit and wonder in a violently cold
world.
Trailing
Jesus is a major work for the 21st century. It topples icons,
punctures dogma and resuscitates the memory of a movement so influential
it has spanned two millennium of speculation and debate, infatuation
and worship, war and bigotry, power and compassion. Trailing
Jesus is not the voice of a scholar or a theologian or even
a religious apologist, just the brutal honesty of a man in search
of a revolutionary mystic from a time seemingly so far away, yet
so very close to the very marrow of human kind. James Campion's
third book, Trailing Jesus - A Holy Journal is a must
read for the faithful, the doubtful, and the just plain curious.
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"Evocative
thoughts and memory, distinctive descriptions and unlikely encounters
fill this devoted and faithful account. A candid journey of spiritual
awakening filled with descriptive landscapes arising from a radical
spiritual movement, Trailing
Jesus
is confidently commended reading for Christians who are in search
of their own spiritual enlightenment."
- Midwest Book Review 6/6/03
"The
book's prose is tight and luminous, whose ideas, at their core,
are reminiscent of the neurological perspective that the frontal
lobe of the brain expanded around the same time the limbic system
underwent a metamorphosis leading to the phenomena for the birth
of religion."
- North County News 4/23/03
"Campion's
knowledge of the Bible illuminates his prose with the political,
social and religious background against which Christ's travels
and ultimate end were set."
- Minnesota
Star Tribune 6/29/03
"Campion's
chronicled travels through the mysteries of the Middle East are
peppered with insightful encounters, haunting landscapes and the
region's ever-present political tension."
- Indianapolis Star 5/3/03
"An
enigmatic and highly emotional journal penned by one of the most
brazen new authors to break molds only to be bound by new labels
and break them once again."
- American Writer Monthly 11/03
"Trailing
Jesus defuses the iconic dogma that buried the orignal momentum
of a desert movement so influential it has manage to survive two
millennia."
- Book Dealers World 5/03
"Campion's
well-researched work uncovers the endearing influence of a Nazarene
artisan who dared to envision the impossible, a common thread
to all spiritual mavericks of various times and cultures."
- The Union County Advocate 4/22/03
"A
departure from the quick-witted, gonzo writing style of his weekly
political column, Reality Check, the heady topic may pierce Campion's
well-crafted persona, but there's no doubt that Trailing Jesus
is a labor of love that firmly places the author further on the
quest for universal spirit."
- New Jersey Weekly 3/05/03
"Trailing
Jesus is the best written and most marvelously researched book
I have ever read about the life of Jesus Christ."
- Martin Brech, author and former Professor of Comparative
Religious Studies at Cornell University 4/17/03
"With its descriptive nature and journal style, Trailing
Jesus is the best and most alluring way for Americans to visit
the Holy Land in a time when the dangers of violence and war have
once again rendered it nearly impossible."
- PAX TV 6/11/03
"Campion
richly depicts the uniquely itinerant nature of Jesus of Nazareth's
ministry of healing and teaching as a proclamation of divinity
within every individual and not some remote Supreme Being."
-
Suburbanite 12/17/03
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