Finding Christ in Literature

Back in 1996 as my husband and I sat eating with a group of doctors in the former Soviet Union, several women from their equivalent to NOW approached us with a strange request: Would someone from our group be willing to teach them the Bible?

Through reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and other Russian greats, these feminists had encountered references to stories about a burning bush, a man swallowed by a great fish, and a carpenter from Galilee. And they knew they lacked understanding because of their unfamiliarity with the Bible. Would we teach them?

In Chuck Colson’s book, The Body, I read of a poet who came to faith while imprisoned in an atheistic country because she was reading the classics and encountered Jesus in their pages. Two weeks ago, I shared the first half of my list (www.tinyurl.com/25vwo5r) of some books that reveal Christ or biblical truth in the pages of literature. It’s certainly not an exhaustive list, but it’s enough to keep you busy! Here’s part two.