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David S. Gullion
Growing up in a missionary family, it was natural for the author to have both a keen interest in as well as an opportunity to explore the basis of his Christian faith. The Last Christian is the pro...view moreGrowing up in a missionary family, it was natural for the author to have both a keen interest in as well as an opportunity to explore the basis of his Christian faith. The Last Christian is the product of his lifelong effort to discover whom Jesus was.
The quest was begun with the intent of accepting the Jesus of faith as found in the Bible. Only when or if the investigation and evidence led in some other direction were alternatives proposed and the reasons given for arriving at some other conclusion.
The author has written and published two other books, How Would You Like Your Balut? and Telling On Texas. Both books are a thinly disguised autobiographies based on the authors experiences and that of his family. The former is a relating of his familys experiences in the Philippines from 1945 to 2004. The latter is a recounting of high school and college life in north Texas during the turbulent period of the civil rights movement and Vietnam War era. It is a saga of coming of age, of two young men who return to the Texas of their birth, only after having spent their childhood and early teens in Asia.
These two works, along with The Last Christian, form a trilogy. They are a quest of discovery. Being the product of a mixed cultural heritage, the author tries to discover who he is. They are the attempt to define major aspects of his environment by noting the effect of the Jesus of faith in shaping him and his world. The Last Christian tries to extend the search further by defining whom the Jesus of faith and history was and is.view less