The Ball and the Cross

By G.K. Chesterton, Ben Hatke (illustrator),

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Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

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This madcap story involves a militant Christian and a militant atheist who decide to fight to the death over the question of the existence of God. The trouble is that no one in the world will let them do it. When I first read it, much as I enjoyed the two central combatants and their repeatedly baffled zeal, I was even more delighted by the framework of the novel. The Ball and the Cross begins in a spaceship containing a mad scientist named Lucifer and a holy monk named Michael. The theological-cosmological setting seems clear, but this is not a…

From Eleanor's list on good and evil without being cloying or preachy.