The Man Born to be King Author:Dorothy L. Slayers The Man Born to Be King: A play-cycle on the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Written for Broadcasting by Dorothy Slayers. — Following the Greek Testament, and organizing material by the principal of dramatic coherence, Miss Slayers presents Jesus in his human setting as a man among men, like us. They inhabited a particular world, were l... more »imited by a particular word view, were mixtures of stupidity and insight, goodwill and malice, and did not know what the consequences of their actions would be, any more than we do. Here is neither the pink-and-white Jesus of the sentimental heresy, nor the glittering, timeless Deliverer, but the first-century Palestinian Jew who by the fulfillment of his humanity exhibited - and exhibits - God to man. The plain tale is plainly told, and is so placed in its context of the everyday, and so is stripped of the aura of ponderous gravity and breathless enchantment that has hidden it, that it becomes again what it originally was: in turn tenderly moving, casual, horrifying, magnificent, and above all, quickening to the intellect, heart and soul.« less