Christian Fantasy - The Best Books of Yesterday and Today
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Although some Christians have become famous for their opposition to books like
Harry Potter and
Twilight, Christian fantasy is an old and golden tradition: J. R. R.
Tolkien, C. S.
Lewis, Madeleine L Engle, George MacDonald - a list of Christian fantasy authors is long and legendary.
Today, authors of Christian fantasy and other speculative fiction are still producing powerful works.
Below are five of the best Christian fantasy novels of yesterday and today.
The Lord of the Rings
1. Is there anyone alive who isn't familiar with
The Lord of the Rings? More than any other book, J.
R. R. Toldien
Here are elves, dwarves, men, hobbits, and a world so carefully and beautifully crafted that it matters as much as any of the characters.
LOTR merit a place in the upper part of every Christian's list of fantasy and in the wider canon.
2.
Lilith George MacDonald was a Scottish minister lives in 1800, wrote the novels, including Christian imagination to support his family (sermon not pay well).
Both Tolkien and Lewis credited MacDonald as one of their inspirations, especially Lewis, who said that MacDonald's
Phantastes, one of the first Christian fantasy books ever, changed his life.
Lilith is the story of a man in another world, where it is the spirit of the first wife of Adam appeared drawn, and in the depths of his humanity in a world of fear, funny - and awfully familiar.
3.
Overstreet's books are a meditation on art and faith, set in a gorgeous, gritty, and marvelously developed world.
4.
It opens with the reflections of a marooned pirate who is waiting to be eaten by grisly night monsters as he thinks back over his life, the heroes and heroines he has known, and the choices that led him to life now.
By Darkness Hid
The first book in yet another trilogy, Jill Williamson's first Christian fantasy novel follows the adventures of Achan, a boy whose name means "trouble," as he rises from his status of abused kitchen slave to become first a squire and then a terrifyingly gifted mind-reader.
Every story is strong and set in the developed world.
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