The Christian Epic is an effort to tell the story of Christian belief as theological poetry, from the glory of the eternal, Triune God through creation, fall and redemption, to the recreation of wholeness and glory in heaven. Attempting to combine truth and beauty, its poetry is meant to contain rigorous Christian apologetics, philosophical argument and comparative theology. It defends the Christian faith and faces challenges as diverse as Vedantic Hinduism and Nietzschean deconstruction. Yet all is written as verse, meant to inspire, to be felt as well as understood.