Between Truth and Fiction
A Narrative Reader in Literature and Theology
by David Jasper, Allen Smith
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Providing students with an array of original texts spanning from the Bible into the present, Between Truth and Fiction guides the reader through exercises in interpretation and reflection. With each reading chosen to introduce different forms of theological thinking, this volume raises questions about how we read—and how that affects theological thinking and practice. Intentionally blurring the hard distinctions between "truth" and "fiction," the book is divided into genres (with often-surprising examples within): literary theology; fiction; autobiography; lyrics, poetry, and songs; drama; essays and aphorisms; sermons; postcolonial literature; feminist literature; and the postmodern text.
Includes excerpts from the works of Augustine of Hippo, Anselm of Canterbury, Karl Barth, Dostoevsky, Ian McEwan, Julian of Norwich, C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Meister Eckhart, Graham Greene, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Edwards, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thornton Wilder, Martin Luther King Jr., Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, and Dave Eggers, among others.
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<P>This brilliant reader—texts, the introduction, the questions—is exactly the kind of reader that reminds us all anew how to read theological texts in literary terms and literary texts in theological terms.</P>
Author Biography
David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow and is Distinguished Overseas Professor of Comparative Literature in the School of Liberal Arts at the Renmin University of China. His previous books include The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture and The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology.
Allen Smith is Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow and author of From Pulpit to Fiction: Sermonic Texts and Fictive Transformations.
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- Publisher Baylor University Press
- Publication Date July 2010
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781602583191 / 1602583196
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 39.95 USD
- Pages192
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions9 X 6 inches
- Reference Code1602583196
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