{"product_id":"9780226842219","title":"Fictions of God : English Renaissance Literature and the Invention of the Biblical Narrator (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation.\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e We often identify secularization's characteristic literary form as the modern novel: out with divine scripture, in with human fictions. In Fictions of God, Raphael Magarik argues that this story overlooks the cultural upheavals of the Protestant Reformation. Early reformers imagined a Bible that was neither infallible nor inerrant but fictional, composed by a divine counterfactual: God crafted the text, they said, as if it had been written by the prophets. Early modern Protestants now found in their Bibles not a source of foundational truths but a model for unreliable narration, even fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFictions of God traces how this approach to literature passed from biblical commentators to poets like Abraham Cowley, John Milton, and Lucy Hutchinson amid the violent emergence of a new religious and political order—long before the eighteenth-century rise of the English novel. The result is a transformative account of the Reformation's effect on imaginative literature and the secularization of the Bible itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52258524266807,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":623.07,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780226842219-1.jpg?v=1783099267","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780226842219","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}