Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Christian authors Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 90 05:33:21 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Quixote Lines: 38 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey) asks .> On a related note, Does anyone know about any other Christian novelists/ .> Christian writers rather in the vein of C.S. Lewis? I'd like to have .> *someone* else to cite! (I realize that Lewis was remarkable, but .> there must be *someone*!) Some of my favorites: Joseph Girzone: A retired Catholic Priest. _Joshua_. He has two other novels that I haven't read, but if they're anything like Joshua, then they're well worth it. Graham Greene: Another Catholic (actually you'll see a lot of this, it's my specialty as an English major). Some of the more religiously oriented work would be _The End of the Affair_, _Monsignor Quixote_, _The Power and the Glory_, _A Burnt-out Case_. The short stories are also quite good. Religion plays _some_ role in nearly all his work, but it's most central in the works mentioned. Evelyn Waugh: Yet another Catholic. _Brideshead Revisited_ and _Helena_ would be the most religiously-oriented of the works I've read (I can't pass up an opportunity to recommend _The Loved One_ which is quite funny, but in a very demented way... it takes a certain willingness to accept things like Forest Lawn to be able to fully appreciate this one). Iris Murdoch: (will he ever run out of Catholics?). _Henry and Cato_, _A Time of Angels_. These again are the most religiously-oriented of the works I've read. Brian Moore: He claims he's abandoned Catholicism for atheism, his brother and his works indicate that he may not have abandoned it as much as he thought he did. Read _Catholics_, _Black Robe_ and _Cold Heaven_. -dh "The purpose of art is to challenge beliefs."