The Classics We've Read, the Difference They've Made

by Chrysostom Society

Book Overview

In this stimulating book, 18 well-known writers, including Madeleine L'Engle, Walter Wangerin, the question: Who helped you as a writer? Such a wonderful book . . . it's like a fine... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569775036
• ISBN13: 9781569775035
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: McCracken Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good to know that there are Evangelical wordsmiths

Some of the writers who comment on this book are really quite good with words. Sadly, I believe some of us ministers have forgotten that preachers' most effective tools are words. A well spoken word can encourage repentance, or lift up a broken heart. A poorly spoken word is a tragedy that may never be reclaimed. I especially like the "God and Passion" article on Dostoyevsky. This book has convinced me to check out a copy of "Crime and Punishment" from the library. My one complaint is that no one wrote about CS Lewis, one of the writers that helped spark my own conversion and calling to Christendom. However, this is a great primer for someone who wants to learn more about literary classics written by Christian authors. Several great authors are covered here, some of whom I've read and some I haven't. The writers of the essays describe, as the title of the book explains, how their predecessors shaped their own vision of writing and what they believe to be some of the important themes in early Christian classics. I have learned from this book that: The written word is so powerful that lives have been lost and kingdoms fallen on the twisting precipices carved out by a seemingly innocuous set of nouns,verbs, and adjectives. Yet those sentences yield to the yearnings of the soul, and in the end will also be what was in the beginning; the word. This book is great.