A Theology of Fiction

What does literature—both classic and contemporary—have to do with God? A Theology of Fiction looks at our inheritance as “people of the book” to consider how stories found outside of Scripture can—often in oblique but potentially transformative ways—speak to us of the Word. 

A Theology of Fiction traces the legacy of Sister Mariella Gable, O.S.B., the stubborn, sharp, influential critic, anthologist, and professor who helped usher in the mid-20th century triumph in American Catholic letters. Part literary history, part literary and theological criticism, it revives Sister Mariella’s clarion call for a vision of a metaphysical but deeply-sensed three-dimensional realism, one capable of shoring us up against the impoverishment of contemporary -isms and reductions.