Friday, October 19, 2007
MTV interviews J.K. Rowling. HT: Mark Horne.
"The first and most important thing to say about John Dominic Crossan's work is that it is bad history."
- D.A. Carson
- D.A. Carson
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Comments on "Speak of the Devil":
2. Alan
- 10/20/2007 11:01 am CDT
Rowling, of course. She may say she's a Christian, and use more Christian imagery in a page than LaHaye/Jenkins/Peretti in a lifetime, but that's just a disguise.
3. De
- 10/20/2007 3:36 pm CDT
Alan, I know you're being tongue in cheek, but I really hate it when people conflate Peretti with LaHaye and Jenkins. Whether you like his writing or not, Peretti deserves more respect than that (assuming you've read his stuff).
4. Manders
- 10/20/2007 7:36 pm CDT
^ What De said.
Have you fellows heard the latest news on Dumbledore?
5. Alan
- 10/21/2007 10:46 pm CDT
De, I'm not saying he's a bad writer. I'm just saying he's not a literary writer. He writes like a really compelling newspaper reporter. By contrast Rowling, who is frequently villified, writes books that are chock full of fairly standard Christian imagery.
I find it ironic that the most popular Christian writers don't use historically rooted Christian imagery in their novels, while one who is portrayed as a Satanist does.
Hilarious title. ;-) Who's the devil, though? MTV or Rowling?