Contemporary Fiction and Christianity

Andrew Tate is Professor in Literature, Religion and Aesthetics at Lancaster University, UK.

"Andrew Tate has succeeded here in producing a book that is impressively wide-ranging in its theological concerns and precisely focussed in its literary analysis.  He asks large questions about the relationship of these two disciplines, questions which he answers with reference to a range of exciting contemporary fiction." - Professor Terence Wright, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK.

• Acknowledgements \ 1. Introduction: Re-enchanted Fictions \ 2. This Other Christ: Jesus in Contemporary Fiction \ 3. John Updike's Holy Heresy: Between Grace and 'the Devil's motley' 4. Miracles and the Mundane: Signs, Wonders and the Novel \ 5. Little Wonder: John Irving's Modern Miracles \ 6. 'How Clear is Your Vision of Heaven?': Douglas Coupland at the End of the World \ 7. Conclusion: Miraculous Realism \ Bibliography \ Index