This title argues that this is a false dichotomy created by a narrowly prescriptive understanding of the Catholic genre and obscures the impact of Greene's religious imagination on his literary art.

Faith is the way one imagines themselves, others, and creation. A person’s primary faith conditions how they live in the world, regardless of the level of conscious reflection, and regardless of whether this is a “religious” faith.

"Through an exploration of more than a dozen Catholic authors' novels and short stories, the author argues that Catholic fiction encourages the reader to reflect upon the way faith informs one's affections, and how a person conceives and ...