I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure, just as heretofore, when letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate…. Certainly it is my desire that there shall be as many poets and

By combining the virtues of history and philosophy, the poet then becomes the “monarch” of the humane sciences, the most effective at achieving their end, virtuous action. - Donald T. Williams, Christian Poetics, Past and Present

"They could not escape the literary foundations of their own origin, or the fact that they, and all humankind, were created in the image of one who expressed his inmost nature from the beginning as the Word.... And in the process, a few of them have found in the imago Dei the

"Perhaps a secular world view inevitably leads to a universe in which a text is merely a playing field for the reader's own intellectual athleticism. Perhaps only a Christian view (such as Milton's) of the imago descending from God to author to text can preserve the writing of

Greek and English rightly agree in calling the poet a maker, for people are most like God the Maker when they create a world and people it with significant characters of their imagination. The very existence of literature, then, even when it is abused, is a powerful apology for

Because he’s the bomb-diggity

Literary abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seed of virtue. - John Milton

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but they do contain a potency of life in them to be active as that should whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... Hence as good almost kill

"Reading and writing literature depend on a respect for the ability of the imagination to embody truth. There is no valid reason for the perennial Christian preference of biography, history, and the newspaper to fiction and poetry. The former tells us what happened, the latter

"Literature is built on a grand paradox: It is a make-believe world that nonetheless reminds us of real life and clarifies it for us." - Leland Ryken, Thinking Christianly About Literature

“The Christian is the really free person—he is free to have imagination. This too is our heritage. The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.” - Francis Schaeffer, Perspectives on Art

"If God made the flowers, they are worth painting and writing about. If God made the birds, they are worth painting. If God made the sky, the sky is worth painting. If God made the ocean, indeed, it's worth writing poetry about. It is worth man's while to create works upon the

For my theobro mutes: as a person recently committing to converting to Presbyterianism from a Baptist background, would you recommend Leithart? (I’m currently interested in learning about baptism, not Federal Vision which seems like a whole other can of worms).

If the biblical reading of life is in any way true, literature will be strongly drawn towards it. Eden, Fall, Transformation, in whatever guise, will emerge in literature as everywhere else. - Michael Edwards, Towards a Christian Poetics

"The poet's job is not to tell you what happened, but what happens: not what did take place, but the kind of things that always does take place." - Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

In light of recent discourse, I'm telling everyone this one of the greatest stories of the modern era.

And people say Eden wasn’t real smh

States I’d be willing to live in

with football season coming up: men shouldn't wear other men's names