Introduction: How a hunch grew into a thesis -- Intentional gospel patterns in literature -- The silver chair by C.S. Lewis -- Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh -- The end of the affair by Graham Greene -- Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The wayward bus by John Steinbeck -- The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway -- Possible gospel patterns in literature -- Sir Gawain and the green knight -- Of mice and men by John Steinbeck -- A handful of dust by Evelyn Waugh -- Measure for measure by William Shakespeare -- The fall by Albert Camus -- The rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Unintentional gospel patterns in literature -- The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde -- The eternal husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Holes by Louis Sachar -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain -- Fairy tales-an analysis and two examples.