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The Gospels of Faith and Doubt: A Novel

Green, Charles
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282167934

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2010, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: English and Comparative Literature.
The Gospels of Faith and Doubt: A Novel explores the relationship between knowledge and belief. The narrator, Thomas Miller, tells the story of his best friend from childhood, Adam Ellison, who claims to be the second son of God. Though Thomas doubts the existence of God, much less Adam's divinity, from an intellectual perspective, often he feels an instinctive, emotional pull toward faith. To reconcile these contradictory views, he writes the story of Adam's life in two parts: one as a straightforward biography or memoir, the other as his own Gospel version of Adam's life. With that structure in mind, the novel carries forward the structural interests of such novels as Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire and Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright. That dual structure allows me to merge two diverse traditions of fiction: the realistic and the speculative. Merging those traditions enables the novel to investigate the relationship between one's experience of life and one's interpretation of the mystical events of Christian texts.
Michael Griffith, MFA (Committee Chair)
Leah Stewart, MFA (Committee Member)
Jay Twomey, PhD (Committee Member)
353 p.
American Literature

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  • Green, C. (2010). The Gospels of Faith and Doubt: A Novel [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282167934

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Green, Charles. The Gospels of Faith and Doubt: A Novel. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282167934.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Green, Charles. "The Gospels of Faith and Doubt: A Novel." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282167934

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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