Del 0 - Making of the Christian Imagination

Novel As Church

Preaching to Readers in Contemporary Fiction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Reading the likes of Updike, Dickens, and Faulkner with a preacher's eye, David Dickinson offers an instructive examination of the role of the sermon as a literary element and, most strikingly, of literature as a modern sermon. Popular perceptions of religion, religious authority, and the practice of preaching have changed significantly during the past century, so much so, Dickinson argues, that fiction writers have a surprising and unique ability to preach to readers through their own fictionalized sermons and the characters who deliver them. The Novel as Church analyzes the context and intent behind these messages, uncovers the dissonance between ""novel"" and traditional preaching, and illuminates how readers' attitudes toward preaching (and those who preach) may be influenced--or not--by the sermon writers themselves.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-03-01
Mått162 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMaking of the Christian Imagination
Antal sidor232
FörlagBaylor University Press
ISBN9781602586826

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Sounding the Depths of Dissonance 2. Have We Heard the End of the Sermon? 3. Amen: The Assumption of Authority 4. Keeping Faith: The Troubled Preacher in Updike and Lodge5. Heaven in Ordinary: Religious Experience in Fictional Sermons6. Words: Poison in the Ear, a Game with Language, or Naming Truth? 7. Shaping Paradise through Preaching 8. Memory and Imagination Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

"Dickinson has achieved that rare feat of producing a book that will be as interesting to the person in the pew as to literary scholars and theologians. Drawing on a wide range of modern transatlantic fiction, he demonstrates how fictional sermons can embody fresh visions, critique the current culture, and raise problems of authority, inspiration, and interpretation common to authors and readers, preachers and congregations. His swiftly-paced narrative produces moments to ponder and reflect the distilled wisdom of preaching experience and scholarly attentiveness." --Elisabeth Jay, Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes University