Surprises and Fallacies about the Book that Changed Our World
To call a book “the most important printed book in the English language” is a very bold claim indeed, yet it is what the British Library called the book…
Leland Ryken
All’s Well That Ends Well: An Intro to Revelation
By Leland and Philip Ryken Every story must have a beginning. The story of the Bible, for example, begins by answering the question of origins. But we also need to…
Literary Theological Imagination
The function of the literary imagination is to incarnate meaning in concrete images, characters, events, and settings rather than abstract or propositional arguments. To use the formula of Dorothy Sayers,…
Justification and the Literary Imagination
The function of the literary imagination is to incarnate meaning in concrete images, characters, events, and settings rather than abstract or propositional arguments. To use the formula of Dorothy Sayers,…
Justification and the Literary Imagination
The function of the literary imagination is to incarnate meaning in concrete images, characters, events, and settings rather than abstract or propositional arguments. To use the formula of Dorothy Sayers,…
What Makes the King James Version Great?
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the most important event in the history of English Bible translation. In fact, the publication of the King James Version of the Bible…
What Makes the King James Version Great?
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the most important event in the history of English Bible translation. In fact, the publication of the King James Version of the Bible…
Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible
Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the Bible is a subject of neglect in mainstream Shakespeare scholarship. This is surprising, inasmuch as the relevant data has been compiled by a coterie of Shakespeare…
Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible
Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the Bible is a subject of neglect in mainstream Shakespeare scholarship. This is surprising, inasmuch as the relevant data has been compiled by a coterie of Shakespeare…
Shakespeare as a Christian Writer
The myth of the secular Shakespeare continues to cast a long shadow over most people’s perception of Shakespeare’s plays. Until I inherited the Shakespeare course in my department halfway through…