Patrick Grant

People of the Book

Arts & Literature

“Powerfully conceived and compellingly argued across an impressive range of historical examples, this book seeks to restore Western literary culture to its most sustaining fountainhead, the Bible, and by so doing to restore depth and moral authority to literature itself. From a Christian perspective, David Lyle Jeffrey offers a weighty challenge to many fashionable trends in criticism today, but he also rises above these trends to offer a view of literature and culture at once deeply traditional and excitingly relevant to modern literary theory and practice. The result is an outstanding book, a tour de force that will captivate enquiring readers, on whatever side of the faith question they stand.”