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Contemporary Authors Who Write Novels with Religious Themes

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November 1999
Compiled by Thirza Krohn of Aberdeen (WA) Timberland Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Anthony Burgess Man of Nazareth. Kingdom of the Wicked.

Norman Mailer. The Gospel According to the Son.

Jodi Picoult Keeping Faith

Richard Sapir The Body, The Far Arena

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Michael Malone's Handling Sin

Messiah by Boris Starling

Father Melancholy's Daughter and Evensong by Gail Godwin

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Final Payments by Mary Gordon

The Sparrow, and The Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

Andrei Codrescu's Messi@h

Has anyone mentioned Andrei Codrescu's Messi@h (yes, that @ is on purpose). The Messiah is young and female, it takes place mostly in Jeruselem and New Orleans (of course) and there's a devil and virtual reality encounters.....and Codrescu's usual bent sense of humor

Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh

Gospel by William Barnhardt.

A priest and graduate student on the trail of a "new" gospel.

Requiem by Graham Joyce.

A former teacher visiting Jerusalem is given an ancient scroll; soon after, he starts seeing Mary Magdelene.

God's Fires Patricia Anthony

Villagers start seeing angels (or are they aliens?) during the time of the Spanish Inquisition.

The Blood of the Lamb Thomas Monteleone

The Vatican uses DNA from the Shroud of Turin to create ... another Christ?

The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

The protagonist in this mystrey is a priest who is a special investigator for the Vatican. He is investigating a mysterious death in a church in Seville.



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