{"product_id":"fictions-of-god-2","title":"Fictions of God","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e We often identify secularization's characteristic literary form as the modern novel: out with divine scripture, in with human fictions. In \u003ci\u003eFictions of God\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFictions of God\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54978883551576,"sku":"9780226842233","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226842233.jpg?v=1769861718","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fictions-of-god-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}