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Reading the Margins

Encounters with the Bible in Literature
  • ISBN-13: 9781506469355
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Michael J. Gilmour
  • Price: AUD $79.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 23/12/2024
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 282 pages Weight: 318g
  • Categories: Christian life & practice [HRCV]
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The Bible and theology are contested spaces, battlegrounds where participants guard entrenched beliefs against perceived threats. But literature, observes novelist Salman Rushdie, opens the universe. It expands what we perceive and understand, and ultimately what we are. Writers make our world feel larger and more inclusive. When other forces push in the direction of narrowness, bigotry, tribalism, cultism, and war, fiction encourages understanding, sympathy, and identification with others. Reading the Margins invites readers to immerse themselves in imaginary worlds, and to pursue visions of justice and compassion. Whether stories about poverty, empire, war, or the environment, the writers considered raise moral questions and often, in the process--even unwittingly--deepen our understanding of biblical calls for kindness and mercy. Reading the Margins offers a kind of commentary on biblical ethics. Using Matthew's Beatitudes and sheep and goats parable as an organizing principle, Gilmour argues there is much to learn about Jesus's "peacemakers" and call to feed the hungry from aspirational fiction and poetry.
Michael J. Gilmour is professor of New Testament and English literature at Providence University College and Theological Seminary in Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. from McGill University and is the author of many books, including Animals in the Writings of C. S. Lewis (2017), The Gospel According to Bob Dylan (2011), and Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture (2004).
Preface Introduction:?Love Your Neighbor as Yourself Chapter 1: Poverty and Woody Guthrie's Train Bound for Glory Chapter 2: Anne Bronte Confronts Domestic Unrest: Reading Wisdom's Diary Chapter 3: Daniel Defoe's Shipwrecked Bible and Jean Rhys's Cardboard World Chapter 4: Joy Kogawa and Salman Rushdie 'Verses' Racism Chapter 5: The Lion, the Witch and the Rock Star: Bob Dylan in Narnia Chapter 6: An Old Curiosity Shop and an Old Copy of Bunyan's Progress Chapter 7: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth: Richard Adams's Rabbit Theologians Chapter 8: The Gospel of the Imagination, or The Imaginary Gospel Afterword: Censorship and The Far Side of Religion
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