When Jesus is the hero

The Christian World Magazine has an article on novelists who make Jesus the main character. Author Nancy Tischler says such novelists "find many ways to answer the question, 'Who do you say that I am?'" Tischler seems to take a pretty dim view of the enterprise, however:

This is sacred material and must be approached with fear and trembling. Our discovery of truth may be enhanced by the creative imagination, but the Christian reader must be aware above all of who Christ is and how we know. The writer of biblical fiction can hardly expect us to "suspend our disbelief" and enter into the spirit of the story when that spirit violates our faith. The novelist may help the reader to see the truth "slant" and therefore enliven it, or discover a deeper meaning based on individual experience. But the Christian reader knows that truth is not changing. This truth is beauty—without any need for twisting or embroidering.

She doesn't include my favorite, The Secret Magdalene, by Ki Longfellow, (OK - the Magdalene is the main character in that book) but here's her list:
The Life of Jesus, by Ernst Renan (1863)
The Nazarene, by Sholem Asch (1939)
The Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis (1951)
The Gospel According to the Son, by Norman Mailer (1997)
Jesus: A Novel, by Walter Wangerin (2005)
Christ the Lord, a trilogy by Anne Rice (2005)
The Magdalene Gospel, by Mary Ellen Ashcroft
I, Judas, by Taylor Caldwell
The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple, by James Carse
The Thomas Jesus, by Steven Fortney
The Fire Gospel, by Michael Faber
Quarantine, by Jim Crace
The Crown and the Cross, by Frank Slaughter
King Jesus, by Robert Graves
"a trilogy" by Marjorie Holmes
The Greatest Story Ever Told, by Fulton Oursler
The Man Who Died, by D.H. Lawrence

I'm intrigued by the Lawrence book, which has, according to her, "a post-crucifixion scene, in which Jesus reconsiders His mission on Earth and has an affair with a priestess of Isis."

I read one of Marjorie Holmes' books when I was in high school and have fond memories of it; I've read part of the Graves' book, all of Rice's Out of Egypt, and seen The Last Temptation of Christ.

I'd recommend all of them - the Graves' book only if you're seriously able to devote some time to a book.

Anyone else?