SUMMER READING LIST | Christian Fiction Books to Read this summer!! I am sharing my favorite Christian fiction books that should make their way onto your …
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SUMMER READING LIST | Christian Fiction Books to Read this summer!! I am sharing my favorite Christian fiction books that should make their way onto your …
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Peter G.
July 5, 2021 at 5:06 am
I understand how specifically biblical fiction is its own subgenre, but I have some difficulties with "Christian fiction" as a general category. Very similarly to "Christian music" (meaning not worship, but the CCM variety) and "Christian movies" (e.g., PureFlix), I feel like the existence of such a category is primarily a marketing device, a signal to the white, middle-class American evangelical subculture that these materials are "safe" and non-threatening (and which often translates into their being fairly insipid). By contrast, e.g., the fiction of Lewis or Tolkien wasn't intended or marketed as "Christian fiction" even though in a real sense it profoundly was (and in the case of Wm. Paul Young, I know that he too dislikes being boxed in this category). After all, any book/art that a Christian produces will in some way reflect what he or she believes, and anything that genuinely embodies truth/goodness/beauty will speak to (but also challenge) anyone who's open to it, whether its creator is Christian or not. So all these books you mention may well be terrific, I just question the category!
Bridgett Owens
July 5, 2021 at 5:06 am
I loved Masterpiece by Francine Rivers!! I am still thinking about the characters and what they are doing now! LOL
Lovely Day with Holly
July 5, 2021 at 5:06 am
Hey Anna!!! Just found your channel and I’m a book lover too!! So glad to find other Christian Youtubers/Booktubers!