TITLE

Faith and fiction

AUTHOR(S)

Hansen, Ron

PUB. DATE

April 1998

SOURCE

America;4/4/1998, Vol. 178 Issue 11, p8

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses the role of fiction to help people understand the doctrines of their faith. How Jesus Christ used fiction to reveal God to the people; How myth unites abstract concepts and reality; How various religious writers depicted God in their stories.

ACCESSION #

446012

Tags: FICTION;  FAITH

 

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