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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... action-adventure techno- thriller (featuring spies, detectives, soldiers, or spacemen thwarting attempts to take over the world). Some of the most popular books are starkly bad—bad in their content, bad in their effect, and, in a ...
... action. The inner passion of lust is what corrupts. The evil in the heart brings forth evil actions (Matthew 15:19, 20). If the action is hindered because of the con- straints of law or opportunity, the inner sinfulness remains. Jesus ...
... action was never shown. Rather, the characters affected simply left the stage; later a mes- senger came to report the horrible news. Why this reticence? The Greeks were hardly prudish or moralis- tic. The reason was a sound aesthetic ...
... action but sinful language: speaking and deceiving through empty words. CENSORSHIP AND SELECTIVITY Should a book be suppressed for its sinfulness? Should Christians work to outlaw offensive writing? Christians must be very cautious here ...
... as members of a People's Liberation Army; when they murder civilians, they think of it as “taking action against imperialism.” Some words are so powerful, conveying such overwhelmingly positive connotations, 50 READING BETWEEN THE LINES.
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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 |