In the World : Reading and Writing as a Christian
by Timmerman, John H., and Donald R. HettingaEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-09-01
Publisher(s): Baker Academic
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Summary
Good writing "doesn't just happen," say the authors. It takes work and a basic understanding of rhetorical situations. "Whatever our goals, we want readers to be affected by our writing," they assert. "The work of writing clarifies who we are in relation to both God and the world about us." In the World equips readers to become better writers. It also introduces quality writing with over sixty classic and contemporary selections from numerous writers, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Donne, Henri Nouwen, Walter Wangerin Jr., and Charles Darwin. This second edition contains a completely updated and revised rhetoric section and added contemporary essays that represent a broad range of ethnicity, gender, and point of view.
Author Biography
John H. Timmerman (Ph.D., Ohio University) and Donald R. Hettinga (Ph.D., University of Chicago) are professors of English at Calvin College. They have won many awards for their essays, short stories, and poetry and each has authored several books.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Reading and Writing as a Christian | p. 9 |
| Writing | |
| Good Writing: An Introduction to Rhetoric | p. 19 |
| Invention | p. 27 |
| Structuring the Thesis | p. 31 |
| Coherence | p. 39 |
| Revision | p. 45 |
| From Working Outline to Outline | p. 67 |
| Documentation | p. 73 |
| Reading | |
| Defining a Worldview: Religion | p. 91 |
| The Age of Reason | p. 94 |
| The Nature of Vitalism | p. 109 |
| Worldviews in Conflict | p. 120 |
| A Place to Stand | p. 129 |
| The Small Touch of Grace | p. 140 |
| Men Have Forgotten God: The Templeton Address | p. 145 |
| Living Ethically | p. 155 |
| Vandalism of Shalom | p. 158 |
| On Good and Evil | p. 175 |
| Why Get Married? | p. 182 |
| The Death of Infant Doe: Jesus and the Neonates, Mark 10:13-16 | p. 189 |
| A Quiet Conversion | p. 201 |
| No Man Is an Island | p. 207 |
| Confrontation with Suffering | p. 209 |
| In Defense of Pain | p. 212 |
| The Exact Location of the Soul | p. 221 |
| Who Is in Control? | p. 227 |
| My Bones Are Vexed | p. 232 |
| Compassionate Action | p. 238 |
| Costly Grace | p. 241 |
| Narratives of Life: Understanding Ourselves | p. 251 |
| The Empty Manger: A Christmas Story | p. 254 |
| A Father to the End | p. 263 |
| Telling the Story: Two Student Narratives | p. 271 |
| Fathers | p. 272 |
| Hail Mary | p. 277 |
| Discipline | p. 282 |
| Telling the Truth in Literature | p. 303 |
| Letter to a Christian Artist | p. 306 |
| On Evil in Art | p. 312 |
| The Christian Reader | p. 317 |
| Why Read Harry Potter? J. K. Rowling and the Christian Debate | p. 324 |
| Moral Magic? Ethics and HarryPotter | p. 347 |
| Language and the Liberal Arts | p. 355 |
| The Living Word: The Bible in Translation | p. 358 |
| The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians | p. 367 |
| A Vital Language | p. 378 |
| The Liberal Arts: What and Why? | p. 383 |
| You're Still Failing | p. 395 |
| Living in the Environment | p. 401 |
| Wilderness Letter | p. 404 |
| The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis | p. 410 |
| Natural Selection | p. 417 |
| The Fixed | p. 423 |
| The Land Ethic | p. 430 |
| No Silent Spring | p. 436 |
| Brute Neighbors: The Battle of the Ants | p. 440 |
| Rhetorical Index | p. 445 |
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