Talk:Christian literature

[Untitled]
Please be nice to this stub. It's had a bad day. I promised to write something here before realising what a huge undertaking I had started, and how little there was in Wikipedia already. So you will find here vast generalisations, huge inaccuracies, massive blank spots and probably some stuff that is just plain wrong.

Every single section of this article (including some that don't exist yet) probably deserves to be an article itself. Feel free to add anything relevant. DJ Clayworth 00:35, 20 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey DJ, good start. I would suggest something.  Just as the Lord of the Rings has Christian themes without being Christian, Narnia takes a similar debate. It's opening up a can of worms perhaps, but  Lewis openly wrote Chrisitan themes into the books while denying them as being "Christian" writings, which is true.  However, the are touted as Christian works.  For now I think your mention of Lewis tangentally is fine, and probably will remain so.  I think it may be worth a mention later, but with the popularity of the movie and whatnot it might just invite trolling. --TKE 02:39, 1 March 2006 (UTC)


 * With Narnia you are only partly right. What Lewis denied with Narnia was the they were Christian allegories. He did not deny that there were Christian themes therein (and only an idiot would deny that). I don't think anyone would deny that Narnia belongs in the category of Christian Literature. DJ Clayworth (talk) 15:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * It's odd there no category for this - there should be. i've just been clearing out the Category:Christian art which is actually for Christian visual art only, & there have been a number of literary articles with no cat I know to put them in. See my log for just now if you want to rescue them - it should be clear from my apologetic edit summary which they are. Johnbod 02:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I've removed some works from the list that are explicitly apologetic, doctrinal or practical because they don't usually fall within the definition of 'literature' (any more than a cookery book is usually considered 'literature' in the secular world). I've also removed the Bible and the Book of Mormon for the same reason. DJ Clayworth (talk) 15:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Proposed work group
There is currently discussion regarding the creation of a work group specifically to deal with articles dealing with this subject, among others, here. Any parties interested in working in such a group are welcome to indicate their interest there. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 18:07, 15 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I am interested. LaivineOrodrim (talk) 11:18, 13 April 2023 (UTC)