Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to LiteratureCrossway, 31.01.2013 - 256 Seiten Here is a guidebook for those who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good—to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what they read—from the classics to the bestsellers. He explains how the major genres of literature communicate. He explores ways comedy, tragedy, realism, and fantasy can portray the Christian worldview. These discussions lead to a host of related topics—the value of fairy tales for children, the tragic and the comic sense of life, the interplay between Greek and Biblical concepts in the imagination, and the new "post-modernism" (a subject of vital importance to Christians). In the pages of this book, readers will meet writers, past and present who carry on a great literary tradition. By supporting worthy authors, Christians can exert a powerful influence on their culture. |
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... Lewis, They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963), ed. Walter Hooper. Copyright © 1979 C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Company and Collins Publishers. _____ ...
... Lewis and Ray Bradbury), thrillers (Edgar Allan Poe and Graham Greene), and mysteries (Dorothy Sayers and P. D. James). The problem is the way bad books are written: badly. Good books—even those written by non-Christians or dealing only ...
... Lewis's words, “to enlarge our being.”3 Vicarious experience can be more pleasurable than real experi- ence. Reading about a Civil War battle may be exciting; actually being in a Civil War battle would be terrifying. Reading the novel ...
... Lewis, a Christian alle- gory that clearly presents the gospel and through which hundreds of children and adults have been brought to Christ. Why would Christians object to such a book? Because the title has a witch in it and thus might ...
... Lewis. He is such an effective apologist for the Christian faith precisely because he is such a good writer. Consider how he writes about Jesus Christ: The things He says are very different from what any other teacher has said. Others ...
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Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature Gene Edward Veith Jr Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2013 |
Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature Gene Edward Veith Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |