The novel as church : preaching to readers in contemporary fiction /
Dickinson, David,1956-
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and indexes.
Introduction -- Sounding the depths of dissonance -- Have we heard the end of the sermon? -- Amen: the assumption of authority -- Keeping faith: the troubled preacher in Updike and Lodge -- Heaven in ordinary: religious experience in fictional sermons -- Words: poison in the ear, a game with language or naming truth? -- Shaping paradise through preaching -- Memory and imagination -- Epilogue.
English fiction
English fiction
Preaching in literature.
Sermons in literature.
Religion in literature.