In December 2013, Mr. De Vivo published his debut novel, "Imputed Knowledge." Based on his background in philosophy and law, De Vivo brings these disciplines together where Faith and Reason either converge or collide. As Saint (Pope) John Paul II characterized the issue, Faith abandoned by Reason is an "Unthinking Faith," whereas, together, they become the "Wings On Which The Human Spirit Soars Toward Wisdom" (Fides et Ratio Papal Encyclical 1998). In the immediate aftermath of a hijacking, the main character (Jude Priore) is caught in the cross-hairs of a revenge plot against him, incendiary knowledge about questionable airport security on the day of the 767's hijacking leaves Priore accountable for "what he should have known" about defects in security. In the grander scheme of things, Priore's work on litigation arising out of so many catastrophic events such as the hijacking leads him to find innocent suffering incomprehensible if God is Omniscient. As knowledge of the seeming ruse in airport security is "imputed" to Priore, so, too, is Priore guilty of "imputing" Omniscience to God. Otherwise, he asks, wouldn't an All Knowing God arrest innocent suffering?

In 2014, the prestigious Kirkus Review praised De Vivo's debut novel as "written with considerable skill [and] with a cast of well-drawn international characters...a well done, intelligent, gripping thriller about the deeper implications of a tragedy." www.kirkusdevivo.com.

The book is available on Amazon. Com., and all the author's proceeds go to Foundations For Children's Diseases And Illnesses (St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Ara Parseghian Foundation, among them).

Imputed Knowledge

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