Fan Casting The Word

by Irving Wallace

Story added by surge79uwf on August 18, 2022

Story Plot

Within Roman ruins, a new gospel written by Jesus' younger brother, James, in the first century, has been discovered. In the gospel, many facts of Jesus' life, including the years not mentioned in the Bible, are revealed not to be as factual as they were once thought to be. Steven Randall is the publicist hired by New Testament International, an alliance of American and European Bible publishers. The project has been top-secret for six years, and now it is about to be unveiled to a world long in need of Christian revival. A struggle for control of the World Council of Churches, the suspicious absence in the project of archeologist Prof. Augusto Monti, the original discoverer – and whose daughter Angela is a potential love interest for Steve –, and the potential notion that the newly discovered gospel itself is a forgery made in the 20th century instead of a legitimate historical document, all are guaranteed to make Steve question the worth of the new job he is undertaking, and the newly re-found faith in God he acquired along with it...