tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969587706993664601.post9092092941351217065..comments2024-03-28T12:48:54.329+05:30Comments on Chai Chats with the Eichers: BooksAndi and Sheba Eicherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976939822173506855noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969587706993664601.post-62732559948383862582009-06-17T20:32:54.045+05:302009-06-17T20:32:54.045+05:30Thanks Ben,
The Word illuminates the world (thoug...Thanks Ben,<br /><br />The Word illuminates the world (though we so often do the very opposite). <br /><br />Der Gute Martin certainly proves to be pithy and very apropos to this topic. Amazing what a German monk was able to set in motion - and how Catholic his tastes were.<br /><br />What dismays me about a lot of fiction is the total bleakness and sordidness of it all...Andi and Sheba Eicherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14976939822173506855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969587706993664601.post-26615831310379227032009-06-17T04:04:15.977+05:302009-06-17T04:04:15.977+05:30I read this post a few days ago and have been kick...I read this post a few days ago and have been kicking it around in my mind. As someone who has a deep love for fiction and wished I could read hours a day every day, the balance of Word/literature is one I'm always struggling with. I think they can be mutually beneficial and especially hope that my reading of fiction augments, not diminishes, my love for the Word.<br /><br />I just came across this interesting quote from Martin Luther:<br /><br /> I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure, just as heretofore, when letters [literature] have declined and lain prostrate, theology too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate; nay, I see that there has never been a great revelation of the Word of God unless he has first prepared the way by the rise and prosperity of languages and letters, as though they were John the Baptists. . . . Certainly it is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies, as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.<br /><br />Martin Luther, Letter to Eoban Hess, 29 March 1523. Werke, Weimar edition, Luthers Briefwechsel, III, 50.<br /><br />I guess I'll keep striving for fullness with both.Ben Davyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10846242280535685201noreply@blogger.com