Providing students with an array of original texts spanning from
the Bible into the present, Between Truth and Fictionguides 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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