No Indiana Jones? No Nazis? I am immensely disappointed!
Donald R. McClarey | 04.27.06 - 4:45 pm | #

Now, I don't claim to know everything, just a lot about stuff I'm interested in. An excellent complement to this book would be Richard Barber's recent HOLY GRAIL.

Resist the Gnostic Hegemony! Reclaim the Christian meaning of the Grail!
Sandra Miesel | Homepage | 04.28.06 - 1:07 pm | #

Sandra's right. Barber's book is very good, and it indeed helps us along the way to "Reclaim the Christian meaning of the Grail." I wish only that it had come out when we were still in the heat of writing ours. Barber does all the spade work for that Christian recovery, but he doesn't go there himself. In fact, he's sometimes remarkably tone-deaf about religion. There's an excellent review of his book here: http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-b....cgi/past- 00166. It's 99.44% positive, as it should be, but I think the little bit of criticism is accurate. Thanks, Sandra, for bringing up a great read.
Mike Aquilina | Homepage | 04.28.06 - 2:17 pm | #

Oh, and both Indiana and the Nazis appear, albeit briefly, in our book.
Mike Aquilina | Homepage | 04.28.06 - 2:17 pm | #

'Oh, and both Indiana and the Nazis appear, albeit briefly, in our book."

Thank you! They are little more ridiculous than much of the nonsense that has become encrusted around the Sangreal over the centuries.
Donald R. McClarey | 04.28.06 - 3:03 pm | #

Amen to that — though I don't think Publisher's Weakly will approve of such language. Check out their Amazon review of our book.
Mike Aquilina | Homepage | 04.28.06 - 6:50 pm | #