Description
This course engages theological themes like sin and deception, pride and lust, call and confession, and salvation and redemption through the work of novelist Susan Howatch. In six closely related novels about Anglican clergy Howatch weaves together human relationships, theological concepts, and large societal issues in a fictional narrative that unfolds within the real-life context of the twentieth-century Church of England, its spirituality and theology. While thus offering both insiders and outsiders a unique encounter with the Anglican tradition, the course invites students to explore the universal Christian themes of these books spiritually, pastorally, and theologically.