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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: David DickinsonPublisher: Baylor University Press Imprint: Baylor University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.536kg ISBN: 9781602586826ISBN 10: 1602586829 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 30 March 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 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 Lodge 5. Heaven in Ordinary: Religious Experience in Fictional Sermons 6. Words: Poison in the Ear, a Game with Language, or Naming Truth? 7. Shaping Paradise through Preaching 8. Memory and Imagination Epilogue Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsDrawing on an extensive range of texts, Dickinson confronts the academic and lay reader alike with the transformative interplay created by sermons when they are embedded in the world of the novel. The notion of church is offered new fertile ground on which to grow. The Novel as Church is a welcome addition to those in homiletics, literature, and the broader field of hermeneutics and a must-read for those engaged in the work of the church in post-Christian society. <br>--Allen Permar Smith, Minister, Kenilworth Presbyterian Church 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 Drawing on an extensive range of texts, Dickinson confronts the academic and lay reader alike with the transformative interplay created by sermons when they are embedded in the world of the novel. The notion of church is offered new fertile ground on which to grow. The Novel as Church is a welcome addition to those in homiletics, literature, and the broader field of hermeneutics and a must-read for those engaged in the work of the church in post-Christian society. --Allen Permar Smith, Minister, Kenilworth Presbyterian Church Author InformationDavid Dickinson is Director of the St Albans Centre for Christian Studies and a minister at Marlborough Road Methodist Church in St Albans, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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