More Than Words
Subtitle: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801064043
Subjects: Religion; General; Christian literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Christianity - Literature; Books & Reading; Christianity - Literature & the Arts; Ethics & Morals; Religion / Christian Literature; Authorship
Description: Good books inspire the imagination, jump-start creativity, and kindle new ideas. So it's no surprise that for these twenty-one members of the Chrysostom Society (a renowned contemporary Christian writers' group) the works of classic literary masters have played an influential role in shaping their writing. In this revised and updated volume of Reality and the Vision, which includes five new chapters, best-selling authors Philip Yancey and James Calvin Schaap ask the question, "Who has helped form you as a writer of faith?" The answers they found are surprising, captivating, and instructive:• Richard Foster explains how reading from the ancient devotional masters helped him to manage a frenetic modern schedule.• Walter Wangerin Jr. shares how the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales helped him make sense of his world.• Virginia Stem Owens confesses that Søren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher famous for his melancholy, helped her cope with a family crisis.• Eugene Peterson tells how he became a better pastor by scheduling regular appointments with the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.