Review: Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith

Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith by Holly Ordway
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

An excellent look at how creating art - and not art whose meanings are explicit, but art which requires thoughtful interpretation - is a necessary means of not only expressing faith, but also defending it. This book will require a re-read - some heavy theological and apologetic lifting - but the idea that we aren't called upon to create art which is blatantly proselytizing, but called upon to create art which leads audiences/viewers/readers into thoughtful reflection and interpretation, was extremely heartening, especially for a guy like me, who long ago found himself called to write in the horror/weird/speculative genre, and who also has a healthy dislike/distrust of "Christian Fiction."

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