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Although a steadfast proponent for Christianity and the Church, Gardner explains, poet John Betjeman nevertheless struggled mightily to believe the faith, and he was forthcoming with his own spiritual failures. In this study of his writings, Gardner demonstrates his works to be a vital part of Anglicanism's living traditions.

Reading the likes of Updike, Dickens, and Faulkner with a preacher's eye, David Dickinson offers an instructive examination of the role of the sermon as a literary element and, most strikingly, of literature as a modern sermon.