03288nam a2200481Ia 4500 ocn850863009 OCoLC 20200709055820.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 130626s2011 ilu ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780830828173 0830828176 9780830868407 (electronic bk.) 0830868402 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)850863009 577671 (N$T) PN49 .J44 2011 REL 013000 bisacsh 809.933823 22 N$TA Jeffrey, David L., 1941- Christianity and literature [electronic resource] : philosophical foundations and critical practice / David Lyle Jeffrey & Gregory Maillet. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2011. 1 online resource (335 p.) Christian worldview integration series Includes bibliographical references and index. Literature and truth -- Theological aesthetics and Christian literary criticism -- Our literary Bible -- Tradition, liturgy and the Medieval imagination -- Faith and fiction in Renaissance literature -- Literature and religion in an age of skepticism -- Agnosticism and the quest for authority -- Modernism, postmodernism and Christian literature -- Literary studies in Christian perspective. "What has Jesus Christ to do with English literature?" ask David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet in this insightful survey. First and foremost, they reply, many of the world's best authors of literature in English were formed-for better or worse-by the Christian tradition. Then too, many of the most recognized aesthetic literary forms derive from biblical exemplars. And finally, many great works of literature demand of readers evaluative judgments of the good, the true and the beautiful that can only rightly be understood within a Christian worldview. What Jeffrey and Maillet offer is a feast of theoretical and practical discernment. After an examination of literature and truth, theological aesthetics, and the literary character of the Bible, they turn to a brief survey of literature from medieval times to the present, highlighting distinctively Christian themes and judgments. In a concluding chapter they suggest a path for budding literary critics through the current state of literary studies. Here is a must-read for all who are interested in a Christian perspective on literary studies. Description based on print version record. Christianity and literature. Christianity in literature. RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts bisacsh Electronic books. Maillet, Gregory, 1965- Print version: Jeffrey, David L., 1941- Christianity and literature. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2011 9780830828173 (DLC) 2010040594 (OCoLC)666492755 Christian worldview integration series. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=577671 EBSCOhost EBSC 577671 cpp1794 02 N$T 53096 53096