tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114873833839278910.post6185092368177807685..comments2023-08-26T06:24:00.597-06:00Comments on A Reasonable Imagination: Contemporary Christian NovelsRobert Velardehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03665635776181855486noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114873833839278910.post-75062777545390267152008-09-23T15:32:00.000-06:002008-09-23T15:32:00.000-06:00Yeah, don't I wish! :-) Conversations with C.S. Le...Yeah, don't I wish! :-) <I>Conversations with C.S. Lewis</I> is my first foray into the realm of creative fiction. I have much to learn.<BR/><BR/>I agree that, overall, Rowling's writing could be much better. I particularly dislike many of her awkward adverbs.<BR/><BR/>I enjoy Hemingway for his simplicity of style. More recently (early 70s), Richard Adams did a fine job, stylistically, in <I>Robert Velardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665635776181855486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114873833839278910.post-27780286043666012932008-09-23T15:12:00.000-06:002008-09-23T15:12:00.000-06:00I would also add that we are, on the whole, no lon...<I>I would also add that we are, on the whole, no longer good readers of great literature. We, therefore, do not understand how to write in such a way that is timeless, relevant, deep, moving, and true. Instead, we have the trendy, the superficial, the sloppy, the disjointed, and the unintegrated.</I><BR/><BR/>You ain't kidding. I see this so clearly every time someone gushes about what a great Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114873833839278910.post-51158040779507504622008-09-22T22:07:00.000-06:002008-09-22T22:07:00.000-06:00Good thoughts, Adam. I think a contributor to the ...Good thoughts, Adam. I think a contributor to the problem of sloppy artistic expression in Christianity - in literature, art, music, etc. - is the fact that too many Christians do not have a biblical understanding of art in relation to their faith. <BR/><BR/>There is a failure to realize beauty in art and instead a tendency to buy into the false worldview ideas that art is whatever we want it to Robert Velardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665635776181855486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114873833839278910.post-3234864307325405092008-09-22T21:12:00.000-06:002008-09-22T21:12:00.000-06:00I'm tempted to say that this idea can be applied t...I'm tempted to say that this idea can be applied to all of the arts (there being also so much terrible 'Christian music' and 'Christian cinema' etc.) and to lament that a secular culture produces most of the best art today. But then I can think of plenty of exceptions going both ways -- actually good Christian art and very bad secular art -- and I wonder if the problem is rather quite different. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com