Thursday, May 23, 2013
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| Thank you for your patience while we collect our thoughts to prepare an essay on this topic. While you wait, here is a sneak preview of reference material that will be incorporated into the coming essay: Gene Edward Veith, Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature (Crossway, 1990); Leland Ryken, The Discerning Reader (Baker Books, 1996); Ryken, Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective (Harold Shaw, 1994); Ryken, Windows to the World: Literature in Christian Perspective (Word, 1990); Daniel Ritchie, Reconstructing Literature in an Ideological Age (Eerdmans, 1996); Robert Alter, The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (Norton, 1996); Roger Lundin, Literature through the Eyes of Faith (Harper and Row, 1989). [Posted October 2001, ALG] | Gary Colledge, on the centrality of Christian belief to the writings and social concerns of Charles Dickens (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, May/June 2012) MHT-115.2.1 Linda Lewis, on how Charles Dickens assumed in his readers a basic Biblical literacy, and so constructed his stories in a sort of conversation with the teaching of Jesus (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, May/June 2012) MHT-115.2.2 Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, on lessons in The Scarlet Letter about wise ways of reading complex texts (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Mar./Apr. 2012) MHT-114.2.3 Ralph C. Wood, on the sacramental vision of G. K. Chesterton, and on the enigmatic message of The Man Who Was Thursday (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 2011) MHT-112.2.3 David Lyle Jeffrey & Gregory Maillet, on why Christians cannot afford to regard literature as a mere entertaining diversion (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 2011) MHT-110.1.2 Barrett Fisher, on the relative artistic assets of film and literature (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 2005) MHT-76.2.3 Rolland Hein, on the life and imagination of George MacDonald (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 2005) MHT-75.2.3 Ralph C. Wood, on Flannery O'Connor as "hill-billy Thomist" and sympathizer with backwoods religion (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Mar./Apr. 2005) MHT-73.2.3 Susan Srigley, on the sacramental and incarnational fiction of Flannery O'Connor (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Mar./Apr. 2005) MHT-73.2.2 Dana Gioia, on the decline in literary reading in America and on the cultural loss it signifies (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 2004) MHT-70.2.3 Susan Wise Bauer, on how adults can acquire many of the benefits of a classical education long after leaving school by reading wisely and well (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Jan./Feb. 2004) MHT-66.1.3 J. C. Whitehouse, on Georges Bernanos and the mystery of the human person (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, March/April 2002) MHT-55.2.2 Tiina Nunnally, on the prose of Sigrid Undset (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 2001) MHT-52.2.4 Glenn C. Arbery, on the achievement of form in literature (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, May/June 2001) MHT-50.2.4 Harry Blamires, on resisting secularism (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 1999) MHT-41.1.1 D. Bruce Lockerbie, on the struggle of many modern writers against religion (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, March/April 1999) MHT-37.1.3 Leland Ryken, on what makes a classic and how we should read one (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 1996) MHT-23.2.3 Daniel Ritchie, on a Biblical view of language and literature (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 1996) MHT-23.2.4 Joseph Frank, on moral themes in the fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 1995) MHT-18.1.3 Alan Jacobs, on Chinua Achebe and the dilemma of living between two cultures (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 1994) MHT-11.2.3 |