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The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artistic creation. Sayers' analogy gives us an account of the person that does not collapse into the atomism of the individual of modern liberal capitalism, but is fully relational. By putting Sayers into dialogue with Alasdair MacIntyre, the book develops a fully Trinitarian theology of work that accounts for the interdependence of human beings, and for the ethical requirements of caring for the weak, the young, and the old in a way that is gender neutral.

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Christine Fletcher firmly steers her readers into taking very seriously as a theologian and a fighter for social theology someone whom they may know only as an outstandingly good writer of detective fiction in her own era and translator and commentator on Dante's Divine Comedy. ... Reading Fletcher on Sayers and MacIntyre is a refreshing way of engaging with the discrimination of justice in a complex world. -Ann Loades, Theology vol.118, issue 2, 2015 This well-argued book ... shows Sayers's views on creativity and work, placed within a Christian context, are as relevant now as they were during her life time - and possibly more so. -Maggie Hamand, Journal of Theological Studies, vol 66 issue 1, April 2015 This excellent book prompted me to reflect that it is easy for those of us in ministry, encouraged perhaps by managerialist ecclesiastical bureacracies, to view our own work as a set of outcomes to be achieved and problems to be solved over such issues as numerical growth, money, and buildings. But Sayers provides us with another way of conceiving it: as a work of artistic creativity. -Reverend Dr Edward Dowler, Church Times 29th May 2015 This text is a significant contribution to scholarship pn Sayers and theological ethics in general and is accesible to all levels of theological study. -Taylor Worley, Theological Book Review, Vol. 26 No.2, 2016

Christine Fletcher firmly steers her readers into taking very seriously as a theologian and a fighter for social theology someone whom they may know only as an outstandingly good writer of detective fiction in her own era and translator and commentator on Dante's Divine Comedy.[...]Reading Fletcher on Sayers and MacIntyre is a refreshing way of engaging with the discrimination of justice in a complex world. Ann Loades, Theology vol.118, issue 2, 2015

Christine Fletcher firmly steers her readers into taking very seriously as a theologian and a fighter for social theology someone whom they may know only as an outstandingly good writer of detective fiction in her own era and translator and commentator on Dante's Divine Comedy.[...]Reading Fletcher on Sayers and MacIntyre is a refreshing way of engaging with the discrimination of justice in a complex world. Ann Loades, Theology vol.118, issue 2, 2015; This well-argued book...shows Sayers's views on creativity and work, placed within a Christian context, are as relevant now as they were during her life time - and possibly more so.-Maggie Hamand, Journal of Theological Studies, vol 66 issue 1, April 2015 This excellent book prompted me to reflect that it is easy for those of us in ministry, encouraged perhaps by managerialist ecclesiastical bureacracies, to view our own work as a set of outcomes to be achieved and problems to be solved over such issues as numerical growth, money, and buildings. But Sayers provides us with another way of conceiving it: as a work of artistic creativity. -- Reverend Dr Edward Dowler, Church Times 29th May 2015

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Christine M. Fletcher is Associate Professor of Theology at Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois. She is the author of numerous articles on the ethics of work and on Dorothy L. Sayers.

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