Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament, an imaginative collection of essays by 23 novelists and poets edited by Alfred Corn throws open the windows in the stuffy tower of Scriptural commentary and lets in some salutary fresh air! Conceived as a complement to David Rosenberg's Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible, this volume contains brilliant, illuminating, and edifying essays on the books of the New Testament — such as John Updike on Matthew, Mary Gordon on Mark, Annie Dillard on Luke, Reynolds Price on John, Larry Woiwode on the Acts of the Apostles, Frederick Buechner on I Corinthians, Michael Malone on James, and Marilynne Robinson on the Epistles of Peter.

Whether you are a devoted dweller in the passages of the New Testament or just a casual reader of the Bible, you will find fresh slants on these ancient texts. The essayists make it crystal clear how the Scriptures continue to exert a powerful hold on our minds, our conduct, and our religious images.

is a sacramental volume in that it provides revealing glimpses of God, thought-provoking messages about ethics, and a vibrant encounter between the past and the modern world. This remarkable book also proclaims the important contribution that religious imagination can make toward the creation of memorable works of Scriptural study.