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Towards a Christian Literary Theory.(Book Review)
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Towards a Christian Literary Theory. By Luke Ferretter. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ISBN 0-333-96421-7. Pp. 221. $62.00.
In this volume of Palgrave's Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture series, Luke Ferretter sets out to justify a Christian literary theory in the context of a contemporary literary scene that is, on the whole, atheistic. For Ferretter, a Christian literary theory is defined as "a theory of the nature and function of fictional texts found valuable, which is derived from those fundamental doctrines of the Catholic faith shared by the major Protestant and ...
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