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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... audience, TV ministries must offer people something they want. You will note, I am sure, that this is an unusual religious credo. There is no great religious leader—from the Buddha to Moses to Jesus to Mohammed to Luther—who offered ...
... audience or to entertain them by sub-Biblical teachings. This need not happen, but religious broad- casters will have to struggle against the demands of the electronic media. Christians must become conscious of how the image-centered ...
... audience is enthralled by a dramatic action, involved in the characters and their dilemmas, the spectacle of overt violence literally breaks the aesthetic mood. The audience may become totally involved with the suffering of Oedipus, but ...
... audience react? Some viewers say, “Ooooh, gross!”; some cover their eyes; some try to figure out the special effects; some start to laugh. The aesthetic experience, at any rate, is finished. The violence could be considered “obscene ...
... audiences. Refusing to patronize scurrilous material (and its sponsors) is a way of voting with one's wallet and confronting the mass culture in a way it understands. This does not mean that Christians should be overscrupulous. It does ...
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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 |