01653cam a2200325 4500 214720566 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 920821s1986||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 86045298 9780394554358 0394554353 TxAuBib Updike, John. Roger's vision / John Updike. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. 329 pages ; 21 cm. 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 theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novel—these and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Roger’s much younger wife, away from him and into Dale’s bed. 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. 20101214. Faith Fiction. God Fiction. College teachers Fiction. Married people Fiction. Adultery Fiction. Adaptations. Religious fiction. Christian fiction. Classic fiction. Domestic fiction.