Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God. By Norman Vance
Norman Vance is one of several scholars who urge us to re-evaluate the nineteenth-century ‘crisis of faith’ and its implications for religion's place in our modern world. His newest book, Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God, marks a significant advance in this project. In...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 799-802 |
| Review of: | Bible and novel (Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013) (Singleton, Jon)
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| Summary: | Norman Vance is one of several scholars who urge us to re-evaluate the nineteenth-century ‘crisis of faith’ and its implications for religion's place in our modern world. His newest book, Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God, marks a significant advance in this project. In it he sharpens key concepts like ‘biblical authority’ and ‘secular’, disentangling them from conceptual problems that plague the debate on religious faith. He also demonstrates that Victorian novelists like George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Mary Ward, and Rider Haggard stand firmly within the stream of ongoing theological reflection, even where they seem most hostile to religion. In fact, these writers produce innovative and ‘imaginative rereading[s] of scripture’ (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu058 |