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"What has Jesus Christ to do with English literature?" ask David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet in this insightful survey.First and foremost, they reply, many of the world's best authors of literature in English were formed--for better or worse--by the Christian tradition. Then too, many of the most recognized aesthetic literary forms derive from biblical exemplars. And finally, many great works of literature demand of readers evaluative judgments of the good, the true and the beautiful that can only rightly be understood within a Christian worldview.In this book Jeffrey and Maillet offer a feast of theoretical and practical discernment. After an examination of literature and truth, theological aesthetics, and the literary character of the Bible, they turn to a brief survey of literature from medieval times to the present, highlighting distinctively Christian themes and judgments. In a concluding chapter they suggest a path for budding literary critics through the current state of literary studies.Here is a must-read for all who are interested in a Christian perspective on literary studies.… (altro)
This book would make a great introductory textbook to the study of Christian themes in literature. As I was reading it, I was reminded of a Sunday School class that I attended in Wyoming many years ago where we studied a poem by George Herbert and compared it to the Bible. It was a meaningful exercise and one that I repeated on my own as a devotional study afterwards. This book actually points out some of the works of literature which might be explored, whether poetry or fiction, and points to the themes that might be explored in some of these. The authors also utilize philosophy in exploring some of the works and in establishing a framework for their study. This is not a book which establishes a new interpretation of anything, but rather one which consolidates some of the research to make its study easier, making it ideal for use as a textbook. There are good bibliographies at the end of each chapter for those wishing to explore the subjects covered in more depth. ( )
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"The only just judge, the only just literary critic, is Christ."
GERARD MANLY HOPKINS
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[Series Preface] Life's short and we're all busy.
[Author's Preface] The last thing the authors of this book imagine is that it should be taken as an authoritative guide to the study of literature--even of the English literature we are primarily concerned with.
What has Jesus Christ to do with English literature?
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Tolkien once wrote, in a wonderful 1948 letter to C. S. Lewis, "the only just literary critic is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed." (p. 29)
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[Series Preface] We offer this book to you with the prayer that it will help you rise to the occasion and recapture lost territory in your field of study for the cause of Christ.
[Author's Preface] With one of our greatest inspirations, Geoffrey Chaucer, we nonetheless pray that the inevitable lapses and unfinished business will be attributed to our "unkonnynge" and not our "wyl." We would gladly have written better if we could.
We believe the disciplined and faithful students who do so will acquire resources to become better readers of Scripture itself, as well as of the rich and variegated tradition of literature that is so often, in effect, its midrashic commentary. To the degree this objective is realized, our philosophical foundations will be appropriately reflected in our critical practice.
"What has Jesus Christ to do with English literature?" ask David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet in this insightful survey.First and foremost, they reply, many of the world's best authors of literature in English were formed--for better or worse--by the Christian tradition. Then too, many of the most recognized aesthetic literary forms derive from biblical exemplars. And finally, many great works of literature demand of readers evaluative judgments of the good, the true and the beautiful that can only rightly be understood within a Christian worldview.In this book Jeffrey and Maillet offer a feast of theoretical and practical discernment. After an examination of literature and truth, theological aesthetics, and the literary character of the Bible, they turn to a brief survey of literature from medieval times to the present, highlighting distinctively Christian themes and judgments. In a concluding chapter they suggest a path for budding literary critics through the current state of literary studies.Here is a must-read for all who are interested in a Christian perspective on literary studies.
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