July 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
In this post, Aaron Schuck defines sacred realism as a form of historical fiction that unites the brutal truth of the past with its underlying sacramental meaning. Rather than romanticizing or moralizing history, sacred realism reveals grace through suffering, memory, and flesh. It treats every scene as liturgy, every character as a bearer of divine tension, and every silence as potentially holy. Historical fiction, written this way, becomes not a retreat from reality but a confrontation with its deepest truths.
