Literature and theology
By: Ralph C. Wood.
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780687497409
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- History -- 20th century; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Theology in literature; Fiction -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Christian ethics in literature
Table of contents: title: The scandalous Baptism of Harry Ashfield in Flannery O'Connor's "The River"; title: The quest for Christian vocation in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer; title: The call to companionship in J.R.R. Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings; title: The witness made by martyrdom in T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral; title: Hospitality as the gift greater than tolerance in G.K. Chesterton's The Ball and the Cross; title: Doubt about the goodness of God in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces; title: Christian living toward the end of time  in Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.