A number of years ago, I read a fiction book, and now I can't remember its title or its author. I'm wondering if anyone else here has read it and if they can remember its specs. Amazon and Google searches have not been helpful so far.

Forgive me for giving away the plot in this synopsis, it's the only way I can think to descibe it so that someone else who read the book would know which one I was talking about.

The plot was about a group of people who very carefully hoaxed a Second Coming. They had a Christ look-alike surgically altered to have stigmata, and they had him descend from the sky and everything. It was masterminded by an evangalist preacher who wanted some reform in the Church. The story was sort of mystery-novel-style told from the point of view of a clergyman who was tasked with investigating it and determining whether or not it was for real or if it was a hoax.

Anyone else read that one?