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In reading how he presents characters' inner lives and spiritual/ecological themes in Outer Dark, Child of God, The Gardner's Son and The Orchard Keeper, Luce (retired, Midlands Technical College, Columbia, South Carolina) traces his developing gnosticism in drawing on mythic imagery and existentialism.
Gnosticism was the movement that declared that the God Jesus claimed as "Father" was different than the God of Israel depicted in the Hebrew Bible.
Fedan draws upon his years of studying Templar history to embed his fictional narrative with historically accurate information and references that include such diverse elements as Gnosticism, medieval military history, royal biographies, and more.
 
 
 
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