Title: The Christian imagination : the practice of faith in literature and writing /
Authors: Ryken, Leland.
Publisher: Shaw Books,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Christianity and the arts.; Christianity and literature.
Abstract: Presents writings by more than fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and J.R.R. Tolkien, on the relationship between religion and literary creativity.
Contents: pt. 1. 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 -- Reflectionson an understanding of literature -- pt. 2. 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 inspriation : inviting the Muse / Denise Levertov -- Reflections on literary composition -- pt. 3. 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 --^