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A: It depends. If you’re a contemporary New Zealand reader, your answer will probably be The Vintner’s Luck, Elizabeth Knox’s acclaimed novel about angelic visitations to a nineteenth century French village. However, seventy years ago, the same riddle might have been answered with reference to Mr Weston’s Good Wine, a novel by T. F. Powys about the visit of a divine winemerchant to a Devonshire village in the early twentieth century. In what follows, I do not wish to suggest that Powys had any direct influence on Knox. Instead, I consider what these novels suggest about the artistic problems that inevitably attach to any fictional exploration of Christian theology. While both The Vintner’s Luck and Mr Weston’s Good Wine feature supernatural actors taken from the Christian story, their portrayal differs significantly from portrayals of the same characters in more orthodox narrations of the story. Ultimately, I wish to suggest that these variations are intrinsic to the way that these ambitious novels successfully meet the artistic problems of imaginative engagement with Christian theology. Bringing supernatural characters from the traditional Christian narrative to the imaginative page is a difficult task. In many readers’ minds, a work as magisterial as Paradise Lost has failed in the attempt. That failure has been remarked mostly in Milton’s portrayal of God, but there are also mutterings

Writers rush in where theologians fear to tread: the artistic problem in The Vintner's Luck and Mr Weston's Good Wine