Comments on: The Slow Creep of Imagination http://churchvoices.com/archives/728 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tim Reed http://churchvoices.com/archives/728/comment-page-1#comment-16944 Tim Reed Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:54:05 +0000 http://churchvoices.com/?p=728#comment-16944 Abbey, Sounds like we have a lot of agreement on the issues, the one thing we haven't really dug into is that going down this path will require a lot of tolerance on all sides. The nature of art is that it is a broad brush that is extremely powerful, but inexact. Along the way someone is bound to take something the wrong way. Abbey,
Sounds like we have a lot of agreement on the issues, the one thing we haven’t really dug into is that going down this path will require a lot of tolerance on all sides. The nature of art is that it is a broad brush that is extremely powerful, but inexact. Along the way someone is bound to take something the wrong way.

]]> By: Abby http://churchvoices.com/archives/728/comment-page-1#comment-16916 Abby Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:47:49 +0000 http://churchvoices.com/?p=728#comment-16916 Hey Tim! I totally agree with you on this subject. It's about the same in the art (canvas and paint) genre, with artists like Thomas Kincade being one of the "bright" spots of Christianity art. I much prefer classical art to his fluffy goo. I really think if a Christian wants to write fiction, it can't be forced, and it certainly shouldn't be some Christian imitation of secular genres (see: romantic literature). I don't read romance novels, Christian or non, and I'm usually amazed that there are people who do, since it's pretty much drivel anyway. And though I find some of Peretti's stuff to be contrived, some of his other stuff is solid and not as "Christian" in some sense (His best book in my mind is The Oath. Not overtly Christian at all.) Yes, I do read it, but I also read a lot more secular novels than I do Christian, so I think you sometimes have to have a balance. I definitely also believe that Christians need to get their original, uncontrived arts out there! There are some steps being made in Hollywood to move toward a more Christian worldview in some movies, and I'm not talking about more of "Facing the Giants" and "Fireproof," but real, moral movies. I think movies like Juno fit into the category of choosing to do the right thing, and it had nuggets of the Truth that most Hollywood crud doesn't have. Hey Tim!
I totally agree with you on this subject. It’s about the same in the art (canvas and paint) genre, with artists like Thomas Kincade being one of the “bright” spots of Christianity art. I much prefer classical art to his fluffy goo.

I really think if a Christian wants to write fiction, it can’t be forced, and it certainly shouldn’t be some Christian imitation of secular genres (see: romantic literature). I don’t read romance novels, Christian or non, and I’m usually amazed that there are people who do, since it’s pretty much drivel anyway.

And though I find some of Peretti’s stuff to be contrived, some of his other stuff is solid and not as “Christian” in some sense (His best book in my mind is The Oath. Not overtly Christian at all.) Yes, I do read it, but I also read a lot more secular novels than I do Christian, so I think you sometimes have to have a balance.

I definitely also believe that Christians need to get their original, uncontrived arts out there! There are some steps being made in Hollywood to move toward a more Christian worldview in some movies, and I’m not talking about more of “Facing the Giants” and “Fireproof,” but real, moral movies. I think movies like Juno fit into the category of choosing to do the right thing, and it had nuggets of the Truth that most Hollywood crud doesn’t have.

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