War Games: Classic Fiction for the Christian Life, by Suzannah Rowntree
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Family and church reformation as a cure for social ills. Christian boldness in the face of totalitarianism and modernism. Sacrificial love in the City of God. Sure, you’ve heard of these classic books already. You might even have seen the movies. But have you caught the vision? Fiction with a solid Christian worldview drills us in right action and reaction in a host of different circumstances. It runs war games for the Christian life, showing how wisdom might apply in hypothetical scenarios. It prepares us for battle. Journey through eighteen classic works of fiction from Beowulf and Njal’s Saga to Mansfield Park and The Lord of the Rings, discovering the exceptional wisdom hidden inside the world’s best-loved stories.
War Games: Classic Fiction for the Christian Life, by Suzannah Rowntree - Amazon Sales Rank: #5023603 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .42" w x 6.00" l, .56 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 186 pages
War Games: Classic Fiction for the Christian Life, by Suzannah Rowntree
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Fantastic Resource By Lady Bibliophile Suzannah Rowntree's epic new book, War Games, released a few weeks ago, and I was able to read it last week for review. Folks, this is epic. You need to check it out. If you struggle with picking out hidden themes like I do, War Games will explain and clarify a lot of the novels you've been enjoying. Exactly what the characters represent, some of the problems the authors saw in their society, and how these novels apply to our world today. Suzannah writes with humor, wisdom, and a passionate love for each of the novels she explores. War Games is an engaging and thought-provoking book about some of the greatest literary weapons in Christendom.My Thoughts This book expects the reader to join in with the work of discernment. After all, Suzannah says, even good books can do damage with mindless reading. Part of this book's purpose is to show readers that thinking is possible in the first place. While every chapter gives food for thought, I learned the most from two in particular. The first was Mansfield Park. I knew Jane Austen had nice books; I had heard logical arguments that she was a Christian, and agreed with them--but this book showed that her novels were not merely idle tales of young women seeking husbands, but carefully crafted evaluations of Austen's society. Suzannah explains the different words that Austen used for Christian terminology, and how that translates to our terms today. I was stunned by the richness and depth of the characters, seeing many things that I had never noticed before. Mansfield Park has always been my favorite novel, tied with Northanger Abbey--and now I know why. :) The second favorite section I found was towards the end, on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, specifically the chapter on Perelandra. I was surprised at this; I didn't expect the Space Trilogy to particularly grab my interest. But after reading about Lewis's theme of pleasure in the novel--how he wrote Perelandra in part to show that taking deep delight in things is a good part of the Christian life--I want to read further. I've always had the idea that one must be passionate about work, but hold pleasure at arms-length so as not to idolize it. And true, pleasure can be used for lustful passions or wrong self-gratification. But at the same time, there is a biblical kind of deep, satisfying, God-glorifying pleasure that Christians can and should take delight in. Suzannah and I do differ on the proper interpretation of Bleak House. (She thinks Dickens fell pray to the trap of believing that men were inherently good and later corrupted by outward circumstances; I think he had a much more redeeming and dominion-minded mindset.) That's a small part of the book, however, and on the whole I agree with and applaud her other interpretations. There were a couple of other sections I had a hard time grasping. Some of the imagery in the Man of Notting Hill, as well as the section explaining Bilbo and the Arkenstone in The Hobbit, are probably themes where I would need extra explanation to understand completely.War Games inspired me to pick up several books Suzannah talked about: Mansfield Park is one I want to re-read this year, especially as we mark its 200th anniversary of publication. John Buchan's The Dancing Floor is another I would like to finish; I started it years ago and it sounds like a grand read. And finally, I would like to get out C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy and see if I can find some of the themes she mentions. This book is a mature look at fiction, and will encourage bibliophiles to reach for greater heights of thinking as they read. As Suzannah says, "Christians have been robbed of some of their greatest weapons by their willingness to believe that story is message-free and purposeless. But all stories have a message." She also warns her readers why discernment is so important:"At the beginning of this book I explained that the right stories are war games for the Christian life. They teach us what the Christian life looks like, and prime us on how to react in this, or that, or the other scenario. There is a dark side to this power. Beware of the wrong stories. Beware of the stories that will prime you for rebellion and contempt of righteous authority."--Chapter 18 Fiction is a powerful tool we can use to advance the Kingdom of God. War Games gives fresh insight into how authors used that tool in the past, as well as encouraging readers to continue using it today. The war of the worldviews is a very real and very present one in all aspects of life. And while intellectual non-fiction shapes the minds of our day, fiction goes past the gate of the mind to shape the heart. It is vital that we are able to understand the books we read so that our hearts are shaped in the right way. War Games will help show you how to gain that evaluating mindset.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Train yourself with joy By Jamie Wheeler This outstanding little book is an excellent manual for what the title describes as "war games": using fiction as a training-ground for spiritual growth in the Christian life. But "using" is the wrong word. It sounds dry, joyless, and utilitarian, and nothing could be further from the worldview either of Rowntree or of the authors she discusses. Part of the role of the Christian artist is to show virtue and goodness as desirable; Rowntree's own lush, witty voice exemplifies this as she builds excitement and passion for reading these eighteen great works, like a smiling, talented hostess introducing you to her guests of honor -- Edmund Spenser, C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, the author of _Beowulf_....Don't think of this as a Reading List of Great Books and How to Read Them, either. Several of these essays might be more powerful if you've already read the work (the introduction contains a generalized spoiler warning), although they could all also serve as good guides to what to look for as you enter one of these classics. (I prefer to read literary criticism after finishing the book, but that's just the way I work. If you like reading introductions first but don't necessarily trust the authors of Penguin or Oxford World's Classics introductions, this could be a good alternative.) The book also helps train the reader to think this way about other works, so there's no need to stop at the eighteen books discussed.The selection is a bit eclectic in style, ranging from Edmund Spenser to G.A. Henty (and taking in on the way the much-underappreciated John Buchan; Rowntree describes herself on her blog, www.vintagenovels.com, as "the world's biggest John Buchan fan"). So chances are good that you will have read some but not all of the works covered. They're not quite as eclectic in time, as they are drawn disproportionately from the period immediately after the Reformation and from the Inklings (granted, these are two highly prolific sources of fiction from a Christian worldview). I did wish Rowntree had covered more medieval works, such as _Piers Plowman_ or the _Song of Roland_ -- after all, though novelistic fiction may not have been a favored genre at that time, it's an important period in the history of Christendom -- but she did hint in the conclusion at a possible follow-up to _War Games_ that would focus on more such works. This book definitely left me wanting more, both of the powerful Christian classics covered and of Rowntree's eloquent and passionate analysis. Herself energized by the themes she discusses, her writing is a joy to the lover of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful.
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