In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have ap
proached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationshi
p with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains relev
ant even in a largely secular society, as a philosophical work, a work of litera
ture and a cultural touchstone that the western world has answered to for nearly
two thousand years. He challenges the way fundamentalists - whether believers o
r non-believers - have misused the Bible, either by neglecting and failing to re
cognize its cultural significance, or by using it as a weapon against those with
whom they disagree. Erudite, witty and accessible, The Book of the People seeks
to reclaim the Good Book as our seminal work of literature, and a book for the
imagination.
