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Book Review 19: The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken

by | Mar 6, 2012 | , , , , , , , ,

I wrote a review for Imagine by Steve Turner and said that book along with the Bible and a couple of others that every Christian who loves the arts and literature should have in their library. Well, I'm adding The Christian Imagination edited by Leland Ryken to that...

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by | Mar 1, 2012 |

"All life, high and low, sordid and noble, vile and pure, is the province of art. Surely if the Bible is to be our standard we must admit that nothing lay outside the province of the inspired writers.  A Christian writer cannot be a significant writer if his vision...

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by | Feb 26, 2012 |

"Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment....is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can't provide that, we may be excused from inquiry into its higher qualities."  (C.S. Lewis) "I got into this row,...

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by | Oct 7, 2011 |

"The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts." (R.G. Collingwood)

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by | Oct 7, 2011 |

"It is not Christian to make art that assumes that the world is unblemished.  More than any other group of people we should be aware of the effect of evil and be ready to draw people's attention to it." (Steve Turner)

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