Sin and Evil: Moral Values in Literature.(Book review)

Christianity and Literature | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

Sin and Evil: Moral Values in Literature. By Ronald Paulson. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-300-12014-1. Pp. xvi + 403. $42.00.

The 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Hurricane Katrina, the Holocaust of the Jewish people, the Stalinist purges, the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, the AIDS epidemic, sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, atrocities in Rwanda, 9/11, the war in Iraq: Ronald Paulson, the renowned William Hogarth scholar, invokes these and other modern instances of suffering and cruelty in his study of sin, evil, and ...

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