• First book for four years from the UK’s leading gay Catholic writer
• Hugely popular with all lovers of lively, intelligent, critical theology

This new book from James Alison has all the brilliance, wit and panache that
have made him one of the most influential contemporary Catholic writers.
Celebrated for his firm but gentle insistence on facing down current
ecclesiastical teaching on homosexuality with the question, ‘Yes, but is it
true?’, and his wry observations as the church flails around on gay issues,
Alison is also admired and enjoyed for the freshness and verve of his
interpretations of scripture, for his dazzling word play and teasing
connections, surprises and reversals.
Alison develops the implications for theology and religion of the insights of
the French literary critic and philosopher René Girard, which expose the
violence hidden at the heart of our culture. He shows how Girard’s concepts
of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism both confirm and transform our understanding of Christianity.