Reading the Margins: Encounters with the Bible in Literature

by Michael J. Gilmour

The Bible and theology are contested spaces, battlegrounds where participants guard entrenched beliefs against perceived threats. But literature, observes novelist Salman Rushdie, opens the universe. It expands what we perceive and understand, and ultimately what we are. Writers make our world feel larger and more inclusive. When other forces push in the direction of narrowness, bigotry, tribalism, cultism, and war, fiction encourages understanding,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506469353
• ISBN13: 9781506469355
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 282 Pages