Company of the Creative, The

Paperback, 656 pages

Subtitle: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature and Its Themes

About the Title: Why should Christians care about literature?  Because each great work is part of the continuing story of human creativity and the search for truth and meaning. Behind the powerful words of novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists we glimpse the image of God, the Source of all creativity, truth, and meaning.

David Larsen has created a guide to stories and storytellers that explains why classic and contemporary masterpieces wield such power over our imaginations—and why people of faith should pay attention to them. He helps the reader feel at home in the world of words while pointing out the themes, philosophies, and spiritual dimensions of literature from a Christian perspective.

This thorough work includes a name index (with more than 1,500 entries) and a subject index, as well as a title index for poetry, prose, and drama. The many writers and periods discussed include:

•  Greek and Roman shapers of ideas
•  Dante and the medieval masters
•  Dramatists from Plautus to Ibsen
•  The Miltons and Brownings of many lands
•  Epic novelists from Hugo to Solzhenitsyn

Copyright: 1999