J M Thompson

It would be difficult to find a better starting point for the present inquiry than the words which stand at the head of the canonical accounts of the life of Jesus. ""The Gospel according to S. Mark"" suggests clearly enough the nature of the facts and the method of their investigation. It implies that there is one Gospel, and that is presented in more than one form. It sanctions a distinction between the essential facts and interpretation of facts upon which Christian belief depends, and the partial and more or less accidental presentation of them which survives in the written records of the evangelists. There is a Gospel behind the Gospels: but it is through the Gospels that the Gospel is to be know.

Cats may get up to nine lives, but they have to work for them. The Great Chief Mawser in the Sky has sent Eins and Zwei back to Earth one snowy Christmas Eve with a chance to earn their second and eighth lives. All they have to do is perform a good deed of service to humans before the sun rises. As it happens, on this very night a demonic cat has hatched a plot to kidnap Santa Claus. With the unlikely help of a nervous white mouse and a secret society known to good and noble cats, they have just hours to defeat the demon cat's evil plans, save Santa Claus and earn their new lives on Earth.