The Christian imagination : the practice of faith in literature and writing /
The Christian imagination : the practice of faith in literature and writing /
Leland Ryken, editor.
- Rev. & expandedition. edition.
- Colorado Springs, Colorado : Shaw Books, (c)2002.
- xii, 465 pages ; 23 cm.
"A Shaw book."
Includes bibliographical references.
A Christian philosophy of literature -- Christian poetics, past and present Thinking Christianly about literature Perspectives on art Literature as an art object We demand windows Christian art Reflections on an understanding of literature -- Imagination, beauty, and creativity -- The Christian imagination Beauty and the creative impulse The imagination : its functions and its culture The Bible as a work imagination Creating Narnia Work and inspiration : inviting the Muse Reflections on literary composition -- To teach and to delight -- Reading and writing worldviews "Words of delight" : a hedonistic defense of literature -- Reading fiction for meaning The Christian writer -- Novelist and believer The advantages of the Christian faith for a writer On writing one's place : writing Bluesville On being a Catholic novelist The Christian reader -- Religion and literature Authors, authority, and the humble reader The few and the many : good readers and bad State of the art : success and failure in current Christian fiction and poetry -- Christian fiction : piety is not enough Confessions of a poetry editor The aesthetic poverty of evangelicalism Realism -- When a spider is only a spider Three faces of evil : Christian writers and the portrayal of moral evil The writer's facts The superiority of realism to fantasy Myth and fantasy -- The gospel as fairy tale Myth : flight to reality The well at the world's end : poetry, fantasy, and the limits of the expressible Why fantasy appeals The religious meaning of myth The consolation of the happy ending Poetry -- On poets and poetry The poet as hymn writer The responsibility of the poet Writing hymns Definitions of poetry -- Narrative -- In praise of stories Is it good enough for children? Redemption in the movies On stories How stories interest us Once upon a time : reflections on storytelling -- Tell me a story : reflections on children's literature. Donald T. Williams -- Leland Ryken -- Francis Schaeffer -- Annie Dillard -- C. S. Lewis -- Jacques Maritain -- Janine Langan -- Luci Shaw -- George MacDonald -- Clyde S. Kilby -- C. S. Lewis -- Denise Levertov -- Edward Veith, Jr. -- Richard Stevens and Thomas J. Musial -- Flannery O'Connor -- Chad Walsh -- Reggie Young -- Walker Percy -- T. S. Eliot -- Peter J. Leitchart -- C. S. Lewis -- Richard Terrell -- Robert Engler -- Clyde S. Kilby -- James Schaap -- Susan Wise Bauer -- John Ciardi -- Larry Woiwode -- Frederick Buechner -- Thomas Howard -- Robert Siegel -- Miriam Hendrix -- G. K. Chesterton -- J. R. R. Tolkien -- Murray Walker -- Timothy Dudley-Smith -- Wendell Berry -- Paul Steven Jones -- Daniel Taylor -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Brian Godawa -- C. S. Kewis -- Amos N. Wilder --
2001057659
Christianity and the arts.
Christianity and literature.
BR115 / .C475 2002 BR115
"A Shaw book."
Includes bibliographical references.
A Christian philosophy of literature -- Christian poetics, past and present Thinking Christianly about literature Perspectives on art Literature as an art object We demand windows Christian art Reflections on an understanding of literature -- Imagination, beauty, and creativity -- The Christian imagination Beauty and the creative impulse The imagination : its functions and its culture The Bible as a work imagination Creating Narnia Work and inspiration : inviting the Muse Reflections on literary composition -- To teach and to delight -- Reading and writing worldviews "Words of delight" : a hedonistic defense of literature -- Reading fiction for meaning The Christian writer -- Novelist and believer The advantages of the Christian faith for a writer On writing one's place : writing Bluesville On being a Catholic novelist The Christian reader -- Religion and literature Authors, authority, and the humble reader The few and the many : good readers and bad State of the art : success and failure in current Christian fiction and poetry -- Christian fiction : piety is not enough Confessions of a poetry editor The aesthetic poverty of evangelicalism Realism -- When a spider is only a spider Three faces of evil : Christian writers and the portrayal of moral evil The writer's facts The superiority of realism to fantasy Myth and fantasy -- The gospel as fairy tale Myth : flight to reality The well at the world's end : poetry, fantasy, and the limits of the expressible Why fantasy appeals The religious meaning of myth The consolation of the happy ending Poetry -- On poets and poetry The poet as hymn writer The responsibility of the poet Writing hymns Definitions of poetry -- Narrative -- In praise of stories Is it good enough for children? Redemption in the movies On stories How stories interest us Once upon a time : reflections on storytelling -- Tell me a story : reflections on children's literature. Donald T. Williams -- Leland Ryken -- Francis Schaeffer -- Annie Dillard -- C. S. Lewis -- Jacques Maritain -- Janine Langan -- Luci Shaw -- George MacDonald -- Clyde S. Kilby -- C. S. Lewis -- Denise Levertov -- Edward Veith, Jr. -- Richard Stevens and Thomas J. Musial -- Flannery O'Connor -- Chad Walsh -- Reggie Young -- Walker Percy -- T. S. Eliot -- Peter J. Leitchart -- C. S. Lewis -- Richard Terrell -- Robert Engler -- Clyde S. Kilby -- James Schaap -- Susan Wise Bauer -- John Ciardi -- Larry Woiwode -- Frederick Buechner -- Thomas Howard -- Robert Siegel -- Miriam Hendrix -- G. K. Chesterton -- J. R. R. Tolkien -- Murray Walker -- Timothy Dudley-Smith -- Wendell Berry -- Paul Steven Jones -- Daniel Taylor -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Brian Godawa -- C. S. Kewis -- Amos N. Wilder --
2001057659
Christianity and the arts.
Christianity and literature.
BR115 / .C475 2002 BR115