A boy raised on the New England coast is sure an angel lives in the sea. Peter Kreeft builds his only novel around that boy and the arguments about God he grows up inside.

Readical Key Points

• Second edition of Peter Kreeft's only novel, published under Luminor, the literary imprint of Word on Fire
• Told as the autobiography of 'Isa ben Adam, in 24 chapters plus a note to readers and a postscript
• Visionary and religious fiction in which Christianity and Islam meet, with a demon named Hurricano and a sea serpent in the cast
• Hardcover, 432 pages

'Isa ben Adam, a Muslim philosopher, grows up on the rocky New England shore and becomes, in the publisher's words, a fighter, a lover and a possible messiah. Around him gathers an unlikely household of a Calvinist seminarian, a Black feminist with no time for religious pretense, mystics, skeptics and seekers, all debating God over dinner while the century unfolds outside. Storms, a demon and something close to Armageddon at Fenway Park share the pages with the talk.

Kreeft's many books are philosophy, theology and spirituality; here the ideas travel through characters, jokes and weather, and the religious claims belong to the author and his cast. Readers of Catholic fiction, and of his nonfiction, will find him in a new form. The publisher leaves one question hanging: whether the boy was right about the angel in the sea.

About the Author

Peter Kreeft has taught philosophy at Boston College and is the author of more than one hundred books on spirituality, theology and philosophy, among them The Philosophy of Tolkien, Christianity for Modern Pagans and Ethics for Beginners.

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