In the second episode of our series on “The Great Questions,” we ask the natural follow-up question to “Is there a god?” If there is a god, what is he like? We talk about humanity’s obsession with this question and where it comes from, discuss literature’s particular relationship to contemplating the nature of God, and look to examples old and new to see how artists have wrestled with the question through the ages.

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