Between Truth and Fiction: A Narrative Reader in Literature and Theology
- ISBN-10
- 1602583196
- ISBN-13
- 9781602583191
- Category
- Christianity and literature
- Pages
- 179
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Author
- David Jasper
Description
, Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, and Dave Eggers, among others.--George Newlands, Professor Emeritus of Divinity, University of Glasgow "Christianity and Literature"
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