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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... believe such things? If peo- ple stop thinking about religion in propositional terms (part of the her- itage of “the Word”), abandoning truth or falsehood as religious categories, then belief hardly enters into it. Even among Christians ...
... believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.14 Since Postman wrote these words, we have seen the collapse ...
... believe in the Bible, but we do not read it very much. Like the ancient Israelites, we live in “the land of graven images,” amidst people who are “mad upon their idols” (Jeremiah 50:38).15 Also like them, we subtly drift into the ways ...
... believe in Christianity, thought that poetry would take the place of religion.2 For many writers and readers in the “high culture” of the intellectual elite, this has happened. They turn to Art to give meaning and direction to life ...
... believe it promotes racial stereotyping. Conservatives are offended by obscene language (which never fails to invite ... believe in throwing pearls to swine—that is, in present- ing something of value to those unable to appreciate it ...
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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 |