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The Christian Imagination
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The Christian Imagination (edit title/settings)

The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

by Leland Ryken (Author) (edit contributors)

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The 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,... read more

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An "aesthetic" is a philosophy of art.

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Preface to the Revised Edition

Part I: A Christian Philosophy of Literature
1. Donald T. Williams, Christian Poetics, Past and Present
2. Leland Ryken, Thinking Christianly About Literature
3. Francis Schaeffer, Perspectives on Art
4. Viewpoint: Annie Dillard, Literature as an Art Object
5. Viewpoint: C.S. Lewis, We Demand Windows
6. Viewpoint: Jacques Maritain, Christian Art
7. Reflections on an Understanding of Literature

Part 2: Imagination, Beauty, and Creativity
1. Janine Langan, The Christian Imagination
2. Luci Shaw, Beauty and the Creative Impulse
3. Viewpoint: George MacDonald, The Imagination: Its Functions and Its Culture
4. Viewpoint: Clyde S. Kilby, The Bible as a Work of Imagination
5. Viewpoint: C.S. Lewis, Creating Narnia
6. Viewpoint: Denise Levertov, Work and Inspiration: Inviting the Muse
7. Reflections on Literary Composition

Part 3: To Teach and Delight
1. Gene Edward Veith Jr., Reading and Writing Worldviews
2. Leland Ryken, "Words of Delight": A Hedonistic Defense of Literature
3. Viewpoint: Richard Stevens and Thomas J. Musial, Reading Fiction for Meaning

Part 4: The Christian Writer
1. Flannery O'Connor, Novelist and Believer
2. Chad Walsh, The Advantages of the Christian Faith for a Writer
3. Reggie Young, On Writing One's Place: Writing Bluesville
4. Viewpoint: Walker Percy, On Being a Catholic Novelist

Part 5: The Christian Reader
1. T.S. Eliot, Religion and Literature
2. Peter J. Leithart, Authors, Authority, and the Humble Reader
3. Viewpoint: C.S. Lewis, The Few and the Many: Good Readers and Bad
4. Viewpoint: Sven Birkerts, Reading as a State of Being
5. Reflections on the Joy of Reading

Part 6: State of the Art: Success and Failure in Current Christian Fiction and Poetry
1. Richard Terrell, Christian Fiction: Piety is Not Enough
2. Robert Engler, Confessions of a Poetry Editor
3. Viewpoint: Clyde S. Kilby, The Aesthetic Poverty of Evangelicalism

Part 7: Realism
1. James Schaap, When a Spider is Only a Spider
2. Susan Wise Bauer, Three Faces of Evil: Christian Writers and Portrayal of Moral Evil
3. Viewpoint: John Ciardi, The Writer's Facts
4. Viewpoint: Larry Woiwode, The Superiority of Realism to Fatasy

Part 8: Myth and Fantasy
1. Frederick Buechner, The Gospel as Fairy Tale
2. Thomas Howard, Myth: Flight to Reality
3. Robert Siegel, The Well at the World's End: Poetry, Fantasy, and the Limits of the Expressible
4. Viewpoint: Miriam Hendrix, Why Fantasy Appeals
5. Viewpoint: G.K. Chesterton, The Religious Meaning of Myth
6. Viewpoint: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Consolation of the Happy Ending

Part 9: Poetry
1. Jeanne Murray Walker, On Poets and Poetry
2. Timothy Dudley-Smith, The Poet and Hymn Writer
3. Viewpoint: Wendell Berry, The Responsibility of the Poet
4. Viewpoint: Paul Steven Jones, Writing Hymns
5. Definitions of Poetry

Part 10: Narrative
1. Daniel Taylor, In Praise of Stories
2. Madeline L'Engle, Is It Good Enough for Children?
3. Brian Godawa, Redemption in the Movies
4. Viewpoint: C.S. Lewis, On Stories
5. Viewpoint: Amos N. Wilder, How Stories Interest Us
6. Once Upon a Time: Reflections on Storytelling
7. Tell Me a Story: Reflections on Children's Literature

Acknowledgments

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  1. Leland Ryken (Author)

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