RE: cclit

["chris ramsdale" <chrisr at seaq_org>]

don't forget Flannery O'Conner and her gothic southern writings...let's see.
all the "Christian" writers who are worth noticing outside of L'Engle are
all southern:  Walker Percy (The Moviegoer is a good pick). Kate Gibbons
(with her i recommend Ellen Foster)

i've been feeling a need to delve back into Latin writers and Magical
Realism myself. i've only sampled

chilled from hiking in the falling snow,
chris

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> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:09 PM
> To: l. harnish
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> Subject: Re: cclit
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, l. harnish wrote:
>
> >
> > >Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:51:07 -0800 (PST)
> > >From: Aaron Edwards <edwardsaaron2000 at yahoo_com>
> > >Subject: Re: ripped off a C-Stone
> >
> > >I don't think that Tim Lahaye has the literary
> > >capacity to be ironic. Ooipsy, did I just bad mouth
> > >Left Behind and the John Grisham of Christian
> > >fiction?
> > >sorry, I'm an English major, with a major chip on my
> > >shoulder about certain (or rather most) Christian
> > >fiction authors.
> >
> > okay, mr. chipped English major--this statement
> > implies that some Christian authors (albeit, few) are
> > decent. who?
> >
> > genuinely curious and not being facitious,
> > lindsey h
> >
>
> Really, the thing about the whole endeavor of 'Christian fiction' is that
> it _usually_ translates into 'people who couldn't sell their books to the
> rest of the world.'  That being said, however, the three that always come
> to my head - as a s/f fan - are:
>
> Ursula LeGuin
> Madeleine L'Engle
> Stephen Lawhead has his moments
>
> However, what are you looking for?  Authors that happen to be Christians?
> Folks who somehow ran the gauntlet of the Christian Booksellers
> Association?  There are glimpses of God's grace everywhere - like our old
> buddy Gerard Manley Hopkins says, "The world is charged with the grandeur
> of God.  It will flame out, like shining from shook foil..."
>
> (and Lindsay, I'm not trying to be at all harsh here or at any point
> in this epistle...)
>
> What about Kevin Smith's comics, a nice Catholic boy who's so into Jesus
> that he made a film that explained his understanding of it all in a way
> that some of his stoner friends would get it?
>
> Or Wes Craven...do his movies count?  He went to Wheaton College, after
> all, and recently spoke there.
>
> Or that great old Catholic, JRR Tolkien and his buddies like CS Lewis?
>
> It's a weird world out there, and I think it's more difficult than ever to
> label anything as 'Christian fiction', at least if it's not sold by
> Zondervan or Ye Olde Christian Kitsche Store.
>
> There are wonderful glimpses of God's workings in a recent book by Naomi
> Kritzer called "Fires of the Faithful" - and Naomi is Jewish - while a
> book that Sherry read on stillness and meditation by a 'Christian' author
> seemed to be little more than a cathartic exercise to figure out why the
> author isn't as messed up as she used to be - God is kind of off to the
> side, despite the fact that the book is supposed to be all about
> connecting to God in silence.
>
> -Drew J
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