Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
Read: September 2009
This book was kindly left with us by a visitor last year and we both took a long time in getting round to reading it. Scotty raed it first about 6 months ago and I finally picked it up when we were heading to Dahab for a holiday. I think I read it within a week. It was one of those "can't put down" books but with real substance and a meaty topic, so although you want to keep reading you, you are already mourning the fact that you will finish it soon.
Knowledge of Angels is set in a ficticious time on a ficticious island when a traveller and a child raised by wolves appear. The Church doesn't know what to do with these two non-believers and somehow an experiment takes place to see if knowledge of god is alraedy within us, or does it have to be taught.
A really interesting read, as I said, and one I in fact used in my Theory of Knowledge class in discussions of "how do we know?"
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