"Andrew Tate has succeeded here in producing a book that is impressively wide-ranging in its theological concerns and precisely focussed in its literary analysis.  He asks large questions about the relationship of these two disciplines, questions which he answers with reference to a range of exciting contemporary fiction." - Professor Terence Wright, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK.

'Identifying pertinant biblical tropes and subject matter and the lasting influence of more definitely theological writers such as Hawthorne, Buechner and Barth on today's practitioners, there is much assured close reading and pulling together of critical and historical threads . . . a compendious, conceptually sound study which asks good questions.'

Times Literary Supplement

Mention -Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2008

"[Tate's] readings are subtle and invariably interesting...the reader is drawn engagingly into the exploration...Tate's book is an enjoyable and stimulating read, never aggressive of obscure." The Glass, Spring 09

'In its insistence that contemporary literature offers a "space" for theological ideas and images to be explored, often in a sceptical and challenging way, this book is compelling.' University of Edinburgh Journal, June 2010