Search results
The novel is about Roger Lambert, a theology professor in his fifties, whose rather complacent faith is challenged by Dale, an evangelical Christian graduate student who believes he can prove that God exists with computer science.
Aug 12, 1986 · In Roger’s Version, his eleventh novel, published in 1986, John Updike tells the sorry, sexually charged tale of faith-challenged Roger Lambert, 52: disgraced Methodist minister, now a theology professor at a university in an unnamed city on the northeast coast of the US.
Roger's Version. John Updike. J. Curley, 1986 - Fiction - 511 pages. A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor,...
Aug 27, 1996 · Roger's Version: A Novel. Paperback – August 27, 1996. As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating.
The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger’s version—Roger Chillingworth’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter —made new for a disbelieving age.
The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger’s version—Roger Chillingworth’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’s...
Sensual and cerebral, Roger's Version is Updike's version of the the way we live now. A computer whiz kid is bent on proving the existence of God on his computer...
