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A Dangerous Gift: Commentary on Susan Howatch's The Wonder Worker |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Jennifer Austa Harris |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 3,671 Words, 23,294 Characters |
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"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
---Albert Einstein
In The Wonder Worker, Susan Howatch has managed once again to create a captivating novel that disrupts the fragile boundary between the spiritual and the temporal. By borrowing a few characters from her esteemed Church of England series, she has focused on the dangers inherent in combining ecclesiastical mysticism and human frailty. This book differs from the six previous Church of England novels, as it has nothing to do with the town of Starbridge or the structure and history of the Anglican Church. Instead, it gives us a closer look at the more mysterious and theologically profound issues introduced in the series through a period of crisis in the lives of Nicholas Darrow, Rosalind Darr...
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...rove inspiring even without the Christian subtext. The Christianity just gels it. Howatch considers her work since conversion to be directed by God, an opinion difficult to refute. Though they are not examples of didactic fiction, her novels convey something rather momentous, whether that be an expanded view of human complexity, or a new way of making spirituality more relevant to daily life.
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