The Christian imagination : the practice of faith in literature and writing / Leland Ryken, editor.

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

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