[Faith-talk] Fiction by writers who express their Faith intheirfiction

Tue Feb 2 19:05:16 UTC 2010

Hello,
I feel kind of embarrassed about my message not knowing your 
cridentials!!!!
Mary

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Faith intheirfiction

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>From: Greg Aikens <gpaikens at gmail.com
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>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

>>> --
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