Charles Andrews

Faith Rising—Between the Lines

Arts & Literature

“With elegance and erudition, Bowman elaborates on Emily Dickinson’s famous maxim for artists to tell the truth but ‘tell it slant.’ His novel contribution is to explore this strategy theologically, finding in a wealth of modern writers the indirect workings of faith. In so doing, Bowman not only offers original readings of fiction but supplies a theological perspective for late modernity where faithful speech may be best encountered indirectly and through hidden, broken places.”