Christian fiction books are becoming more and more popular every day. However, there are many people voicing out their concerns that Christian fiction is not what it used to be. To make it easier, let’s define what Christian fiction means.
Christian fiction is a lot more difficult to define than contemporary fiction books since most of the time the themes are not always obvious. However, as a general definition, it is any writing that showcases a Christian theme and incorporates the whole Christian world view or belief.
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 example, you have C.S. Lewis’ books; most of them are actually considered to be Christian fiction books since they provide allegorical references to the faith. Of course, the argument that when a Christian writes it is automatically Christian writing is still up for debate and purely on 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
People who are now familiar with the Lord of the Rings as a movie might be shocked to find out that this book is actually classified as a Christian fiction book. In fact, the author, J.R.R. Tolkien was a great influence for 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.
This has allegories about Christ as well as thelesson that goodness cannot come from evil.
These two books are just some of the many classic Christian fiction books that you might want to explore and get acquainted with.
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