Jendi Reiter, a Christian writer in the USA, has written an interesting post responding to my paper on Writing novels for the kingdom. You can read it here.
Entries Tagged as ‘theology and literature’
June 30, 2009
Writing novels for the kingdom
Last night I presented a paper to the Newbigin Group on “Writing novels for the kingdom.” Below is the introduction; if you like the sound of it, you can download the PDF file.
It might be much more appropriate to go off and write a novel (and not a ‘Christian’ novel where half the characters [...]
May 15, 2009
The general blessedness of his life
I want to live with the grace and thankfulness of the Reverend Boughton in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Home:
The house embodied for him the general blessedness of his life, which was manifest, really indisputable. And which he never failed to acknowledge, especially when it stood over against particular sorrow. (p. 3)
This quote doesn’t get close enough [...]
March 27, 2009
The Shack : theological fiction for the disenchanted
Love it or hate it, in the last year it seems everyone in the evangelical world has had an opinion on William P. Young’s bestselling novel, The Shack. Whatever its failings, it has moved a lot of people deeply and has them talking about the problem of pain, the doctrine of the Trinity and many [...]
March 6, 2009
Tom Wright on beauty
In Surprised By Hope, Wright has a chapter on ‘Building for the Kingdom’. He sees building for the kingdom as the task of Christians today. The ‘for’ is important. It’s not building the kingdom by our own effort. Instead, it’s getting on with the tasks God’s given us, which he will – in ways we [...]
January 2, 2008
The trinity in poetry
I’m reviewing a book of poems by Jane Williams called The Last Tourist, and it has in it the best few lines of Christian poetry I’ve read:
the father
(surefoot thunderlove)
the son
(appleeye godling in manskin)
the holy ghost
(dreamspinner firetongue)
- Jane Williams “Judas Oracle”
