The modern critical study
of the gospels has made the historic Jesus no mere
figment of the pious
imagination, but a living figure who, at an historic moment in time, appeared in Palestine, lived his brief but tremendously significant life, and gave rise to a vigorous new religious movement that has in time
become the most widespread
of all the religions
of the world.
Now the man once known as Father Donaldson has
become Hellinger, an unstoppable demon with a unquenchable hunger for human souls and a special place in his black heart for the girl who now thinks he was a mere
figment of her
imagination.