[Faith-talk] Fiction by writers who express their Faith in theirfiction

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From: Greg Aikens <gpaikens at gmail.com>
To: "Faith-talk, for the discussion of faith and religion" <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 5:43:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Fiction by writers who express their Faith in theirfiction

John, your post also reminded me of C.S. Lewis's science fiction
trilogy, which you are probably already aware of. If not, you should
check them out. I haven't gotten a chance to read them myself yet but
have heard they are good.

Greg

On 2/1/10, John J. Boyer <john at godtouches.org> wrote:
> Laura,
>
> thanks for the info. I am interested in writing historical and science
> fiction novels from a Christian, specifically Catholic, perspective. So
> many of the well-known science-fiction authors are atheists or at least
> don't take religion seriously. There is an extensive set of books by
> Bodie and Brock Thoene with Jewish protogonists, but the authors are
> Christian. They are very pro-Jewish. The books cover the period leading
> up to World War 2 and the founding of Israel. there are also some with
> Biblical themes. An almost forgotten author is Louis de Wohl. He wrote
> novels about various Christian and biblical figures. He is a Catholic
> author. I am proofreading his books for Bookshare. The Thoene books are
> also on Bookshare.
>
> Right now I don't have much energy for writing. That will have to be a
> gift of the Lord. I'm putting what energy I have into my free,
> open-source braille transcription software, which I hope will eventually
> surpass the best of commercial software. You can learn about it at
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com . And if you want to see any fiction by me,
> please pray that I will be given the necessary energy.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:37:49PM -0600, qubit wrote:
>> Hey John, good to hear of yet another of your interests.
>> I have seen in some of the NLS talking book topics, novels about jewish
>> persons -- I don't think they are categorized as "jewish fiction", but I
>> know they are out there.  Have you ever read the novel "The Chosen"? That
>> was made into a movie which was truely an excellent flick.  I'd like to
>> read
>> the book. It's about 2 young jewish friends who wer sons of 2 rabbis with
>> radically different views.  (I wondered as I watched the movie if this was
>>
>> pure fiction or just memoirs of the author's own life as one of the boys.)
>>
>> As for Islam, you can find a number of books by muslim women living in the
>>
>> more repressed muslim countries -- but these are memoirs and not fiction.
>> For fiction, I read "The Kite Runner", which was a truely well written
>> novel
>> about 2 young boys growing up in Afghanistan.  It was not religious,
>> though -- the protagonist was the son of a non-believing muslim man, and
>> the
>> only religious persons in the book were either poor or else part of the
>> Taliban and therefore extremely violent and oppressive.
>>
>> That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
>> Let me know if this is what you are looking for.
>> Happy reading.
>> --laura
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John J. Boyer" <john at godtouches.org>
>> To: <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:30 AM
>> Subject: [Faith-talk] Fiction by writers who express their Faith in
>> theirfiction
>>
>>
>> I've seen a lot of Christian fiction. Now I would like to see some
>> genuine Jewish fiction. I'm afraid Isaac Bashevis Singer isn't really a
>> believer. It would also be interesting to see some fiction by genuine
>> believers in Islam and Buddhism. I'm making a sort of study of religious
>> fiction.
>>
>> Thanks and prayers,
>> John
>>
>> --
>> John J. Boyer, Executive Director
>> GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc.
>> http://www.godtouches.org
>> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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>>
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