The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and WritingThe Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner. |
Contents
Leland Ryken Thinking Christianly About Literature | 23 |
Francis Schaeffer Perspectives on Art | 35 |
Annie Dillard Literature As an Art Object | 49 |
Reflections on an Understanding of Literature | 55 |
Imagination Beauty and Creativity | 61 |
Luci Shaw Beauty and the Creative Impulse | 81 |
George MacDonald The Imagination Its Functions | 101 |
S Lewis Creating Narnia | 107 |
Robert Engler Confessions of a Poetry Editor | 261 |
Clyde S Kilby The Aesthetic Poverty of Evangelicalism | 277 |
Christian Writers | 299 |
John Ciardi The Writers Facts | 313 |
Frederick Buechner The Gospel As Fairy Tale | 319 |
Flight to Reality | 335 |
Poetry Fantasy | 343 |
Miriam Hendrix Why Fantasy Appeals | 357 |
To Teach and to Delight | 115 |
A Hedonistic Defense | 135 |
Richard Stevens and Thomas J Musial Reading | 155 |
The Christian Writer | 157 |
Chad Walsh The Advantages of the Christian Faith for a Writer | 169 |
Writing Bluesville | 177 |
Walker Percy On Being a Catholic Novelist | 193 |
Peter J Leithart Authors Authority and the Humble Reader | 209 |
Reflections on the Joy of Reading | 231 |
State of the Art Success and Failure in Current | 237 |
J R R Tolkien The Consolation of the Happy Ending | 365 |
Timothy DudleySmith The Poet as Hymn Writer | 387 |
Wendell Berry The Responsibility of the Poet | 397 |
Definitions of Poetry | 403 |
Madeleine LEngle Is It Good Enough for Children? | 427 |
Brian Godawa Redemption in the Movies | 433 |
S Lewis On Stories | 453 |
Reflections on Storytelling | 459 |
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The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing Leland Ryken Limited preview - 2011 |
The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing Leland Ryken No preview available - 2002 |
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