Gold And Dross: A Christian Perspective on Fifteen World-Class Writers – Townsend – Townsend looks at authors such as Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, the Bronte sisters, Victor Hugo, Herman Melville, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison. While numerous biographies have been written on these notable individuals, this book is unique because it evaluates each of these fifteen writers from an orthodox Christian perspective. It offers a critique of their theology and appraisal of their religious stance.  

James Townsend (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) was the Bible Editor for Cook Communications for twenty years. He has pastored churches in Tennessee, California and Illinois and has taught classes at Crichton College, Judson College and Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. Jim is the author of fourteen books.