Contemporary Fiction and Christianity

American angel appears argues Barth becomes belief biblical Blackwell body called Cambridge century challenge chapter characters Christ Christian church claims contemporary continues conversion Coupland's Crace's critics culture David dead death described divine Douglas echoes edition encounter essay example experience explores fact faith father fiction figure followed future given gospels heresy holy hope human ideas imagination incarnation interpretation Irving Irving's James Jesus John kind less liberal literary literature lives London Mark meaning miracle named narrative narrator nature notes novel novelist offers Owen Meany Oxford Paul possibility postmodern Prayer present Puritan questions reader reading reason references reflects regarding religion religious represents response Roger sacred sceptical secular seek seems sense Similarly space specific spiritual story strange suffering suggests supernatural takes theological things tion tradition transcendent University Press Updike Updike's Version visions Ward witness writer York