The Gospel of the Second Coming

What made you write a new gospel?

FREKE & GANDY: We felt that a lot of people were getting bored of the old ones. On top of which, the Gnostics taught that the way to show you had understood the gnosis was by writing your own gospel, so we thought we’d have a go. Luckily we managed to talk Jesus into reprising his starring role. That was a bit of an unexpected coup, because we had no idea he was such a big fan of our previous books. Once we’d got Jesus on board we knew we had a potential bestseller on our hands.

Read more about the book here.