Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Christian orthodoxy and the rhetoric of fiction
  • Flannery O'Connor, the irreducibility of belief, and the problem of audience
  • Catholicism for "really intelligent people" : the rhetoric of Muriel Spark
  • John Updike's rhetoric of Christian American narcissism
  • Walker Percy's rhetoric of time, apocalypse, and the modern predicament
  • The uses of orthodoxy : Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson
  • Epilogue : on belief and academic humility.