Getting to know Christian Fiction Books

Posted by Joseph Taylor on March 22, 2010

Every single day, Christian fiction books are becoming more and more popular. However, there are some people who think that the content of Christian fiction is not like before. For the uninitiated, let’s define what Christian fiction is all about.

Compared to contemporary fiction, defining Christian fiction books is a little tricky. Generally speaking, Christian fiction is any writing that incorporates a Christian theme or viewpoint and beliefs in its storyline.

These kinds of books not only help the readers become enlightened about the Christian faith, but some authors have also used it to further explore their faith; asking philosophical, moral, and ethical questions in hopes of finding answers.

For instance, you have C.S. Lewis’ books, these are considered to be Christian fiction because of the allegorical references that he made in his narrations. The argument of whether a Christian writer automatically writes a Christian writing is entirely up to the judgment of the reader.

Christian fiction books create a huge important to readers and help them get acquainted and get a better perspective about their faith.

If you are interested in reading and knowing more about classic Christian fiction books, then you might want to read the following books.

The Screwtape Letters

This is one of C.S. Lewis’ most famous book apart from The Chronicles of Narnia; this book was praised by plenty of evangelical writers. The book is about Screwtape, who is an administrative assistant in hell and he is giving advice to his young assistant, Wormwood.

Wormwood is tasked to corrupt a young man, so he is getting advice and opinion from Screwtape. This book was written by Lewis in a witty manner and explaining his ideologies in the viewpoint of a devil and the context of hell; making this books insightful and entertaining to read.

It is filled with great insights into the depth and rationalizations of sin.

The Lord of the Rings

Most young people might be surprised that this book is classified as Christian fiction. The truth is that J.R.R Tolkien was a key instrument in influencing C.S. Lewis as a Christian.

Tolkien was actually a devout believer and spent a majority of his time creating his books. One of them, of course, became the Lord of the Rings. The story of this book revolves around Frodo Baggins, after he inherits a ring from his uncle, Bilbo Baggins. This same ring, however, has the power to control the world and provide unimaginable power to its bearer.

A great council has come to an agreement that the ring has to be destroyed, but the only way for that to happen would be if the ring thrown in the same fire that it was from, which is located at the plains of Mordor. Even though Frodo is determined that he will not use the ring, he is weak and he fights off the urge to use the ring as it slowly affects his personality.

The story has similarities and allegorical references to the story of Jesus and it also includes lessons about how goodness can never be achieved from evil things.

These are just some of the famous classic Christian fiction books that you might want to cuddle up and read.

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