Jane Austen: Great Christian Novelist

We live in postmodern times, yet Jane Austen's novels have become very popular, both in film versions and in newly published editions. Why this growth in interest? Jane Austen's books are hilariously funny. She has a sharp and amused eye for human folly and failure in all its diverse forms. We laugh at and with even her heroes and heroines. This delightful humor makes Jane Austen's moral vision acceptable, even to our relativistic generation. Yet underneath this sparkling surface there is a profoundly moral and Christian vision being communicated. Jane Austen was a Christian believer. She was also perhaps the finest novelist to write in the English language.