Discussions about what “canon” of books a school should read often focus on theoretical topics such as the purpose of reading, the criteria that define a “great book,” and how we should think about whether the standards for a book’s canonicity are universal or...

Originally published in Classis, Volume XXVI, No. 1 In my previous essay, I considered a sevenfold narrative paradigm employed by Canadian literary critic and ordained minister Northrop Frye in The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (HBJ, 1982) to help readers...