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The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays by Dorothy L. Sayers
5.0
Sayers is best known for her detective series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But she also was a noted classic translator, apologist, and theologian. This anthology traces faith-based themes through her popular fiction and other writings.
The book is part of the Gospel in Great Writers series from Plough Publishing House and follows the same format. Each chapter takes a different topic -- Conscious, Forgiveness, Pride, or Sacrificial Love, for example -- and then lays out large excerpts of Sayers's writings that address these topics, starting with a passage from one of her mysteries followed by more elucidating material from her nonfiction work. The editor's introduction explains the method and gives background on Sayers, but other than brief descriptions of excerpts, there is no commentary and there is definitely no analysis.
It makes an interesting companion book to Sayers's fiction, a tantalizing introduction to her non-fiction, and a handy compendium of her thinking on theology.
The book is part of the Gospel in Great Writers series from Plough Publishing House and follows the same format. Each chapter takes a different topic -- Conscious, Forgiveness, Pride, or Sacrificial Love, for example -- and then lays out large excerpts of Sayers's writings that address these topics, starting with a passage from one of her mysteries followed by more elucidating material from her nonfiction work. The editor's introduction explains the method and gives background on Sayers, but other than brief descriptions of excerpts, there is no commentary and there is definitely no analysis.
It makes an interesting companion book to Sayers's fiction, a tantalizing introduction to her non-fiction, and a handy compendium of her thinking on theology.