I of course will always continue to read and assimilate various critical approaches to literary works. But in so doing, I do not ever cease to be influenced by my beliefs. My Christianity is not something that can be placed in a box and put up on shelf when it conveniences me. It is no more or less a prejudice than the prejudice of the secular humanist, the Darwinian, or the multiculturalist. It is no more ignorant and no more uneducated.
Christians can learn from secular artist, authors, and critics.
And the greater part . So long as we are conscious of the gulf fixed between ourselves and the greater part of contemporary literature, we are more or less protected from being harmed by it, and are in a position to extract from it what good it has to offer us. I hope you enjoy these papers, whether they take a Christian mimetic, historical, thematic, psychological, or linguistic approach. Feel free to offer me your comments on any of them.