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Fiction Is The RIGHT Vehicle For Theology
Instead of warning people away from theology in speculative fiction, I think we’d be better served to teach writers how to include themes in effective ways.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Fantasy, Theology, and The Depiction Of Evil
In contrast to reality fiction, fantasy can have evil show up in whatever imagined form, but inevitably, the real truth about evil comes out: it is opposed to good. That’s the heart of evil.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Theology and Heroes-Shaping Our Stories By What We Believe
To add to our enjoyment of a good story, we have the excitement of holding it up transparently before the Story of God and finding its parallels and tangents.
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Jill Richardson
Reading Choices: Realism, Truth, And The Bible
God has made us in His own image–which would suggest that we are, by nature of our similitude to Him, creative beings, though we cannot create from nothing. Rather, what we create comes from something already made, and therefore, from God’s world.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Continued Search For The Next C. S. Lewis
Lewis’s fiction did not spring to life in a vacuum, nor did it germinate exclusively from the fertile soil of his own imagination. Rather, he read widely, studied profusely, and spent hours discussing literature and theology with other scholars.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Christian Writer and Fiction
Fiction is not very good fiction, if fiction at all, without âflawed characters and narrative.â As such, the gospel-story (narrative) is the story of sinful men and women (flawed characters) coming to repentance and faith in Christ, the Redeemer, whose sacrifice atones for their sins. The narrative does not stop at the point of conversion but continues with how such persons struggle with the remaining sin within them (flawed characters, again) and the sin in the world around them.
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Thomas Clayton Booher
How Storytelling Conveys Truth Better Than Non-fiction
I would suggest that what plagues much Christian fiction isn’t so much the desire to convey theological truths, but the mixing of non-fiction with fiction. Both forms are valid and have their place, but when they are mixed into a story, the result tends to be a story that isn’t engaging and/or sloppy/incomplete teaching.
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R. L. Copple
Why Fiction Is The Wrong Vehicle For TheologyâA Rebuttal
Rather than shying away from the depiction of âtheologyââby which I mean knowledge about Godâin speculative fiction, I think Christian writers should embrace the challenge. In saying this, however, I do not believe all stories must show all the truth contained in the Bible, nor do I believe that our stories must affirm all Biblical moral values (as if Christians even agree on what those are).
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Why Fiction Is The Wrong Vehicle For Theology
I suggest that this expectation of âright theologyâ in our fiction not only keeps writers creatively hamstrung, it keeps Christian speculative fiction from reaching a larger swath of more serious genre readers.
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Mike Duran
Taking Every Thought Captive
Speculative stories are the brunt of criticism from those who believe fantastical elements don’t belong. At the same time, however, the hammer comes down, claiming theology has no place, that it’s too restrictive, too confining, too box-like.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller