Does Great Literature Require Free Thinking?
(See the last line of the article referenced below) Or does it demand deep thinking?
Where have all the Christian Writers gone?
Where have all the Christian Writers gone?
Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
"Great literature" is frequently said to be in conflict with the major issues or concerns of humanity as spelled out by the society/culture at that time.
ReplyDeleteIs it possible that Christianity is no longer a major element of our time?
Has Christianity been replaced by science, or by geopolitical and environmental concerns?