The Bible, as Wright"s book demonstrates, plays a key role in nearly all D. H. Lawrence"s work. It supplies not only the inspiration but on occasion the target for his parody. After considering the extraordinary range of Lawrence"s reading, Wright engages in a theoretically informed but clear exploration of the textual dynamics of Lawrence"s writing. His writing is seen to reveal a prolonged struggle to read the Bible in a much broader spirit than that encouraged by orthodox Christianity.