TY - BOOK AU - Dickinson,David ED - Project Muse. TI - The novel as church: preaching to readers in contemporary fiction T2 - Making of the Christian imagination series SN - 9781602586840 AV - PR888.R5 D53 2013 U1 - 823/.9109382 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Waco, Tex. PB - Baylor University Press KW - Religion in literature KW - Sermons in literature KW - Preaching in literature KW - English fiction KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index; Introduction -- Sounding the depths of dissonance -- Have we heard the end of the sermon? -- Amen: the assumption of authority -- Keeping faith: the troubled preacher in Updike and Lodge -- Heaven in ordinary: religious experience in fictional sermons -- Words: poison in the ear, a game with language or naming truth? -- Shaping paradise through preaching -- Memory and imagination -- Epilogue UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781602586840/ ER -