Leland Ryken
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Pella, Iowa, The United States
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“It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.”
― Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective
― Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective
“Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.”
― Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure
― Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure
“literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the “actual world” a “new dimension of depth” (Lewis, Of Other Worlds 29). This makes it possible for literature to strip Christian doctrines of their “stained glass” associations and make them appear in their “real potency” (37), a possibility Lewis himself realized in the Narnia series and the space trilogy.”
― The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing
― The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing
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