Yes, Web page. Sorry that my original post didn't make that clear.
*nod* I can see how it'd make you uncomfortable. It kind of makes me shift in my chair, too. The nature of fantasy calls for a lot of exploring, though, and it sounds like the author doesn't *quite* understand that. I have to wonder what examples of genre they've read.
I'm sufficiently aware of my own biases that I have to examine my response to these definitions, but I genuinely feel that it is not so much that the author is looking at fantasy and science fiction from a Christian perspective, which is perfectly valid, but that in doing so they are skewing the definitions they offer. Also, I guess, with their inclusion of invitations to their audience to, hmm, redirect the focus of at least some of the subgenres to include a more Christian attitude. Which I have no problem with as an activity--the more people writing from different perspective, the better, so far as I'm concerned--I just don't see a list of definitions as the place to express this.
As an aside, I've read a bit of C.S. Lewis, whose works are (in my experience) often, if not always, from a Christian perspective. (I've read that he converted to Catholicism as an adult.) Some of them I've enjoyed, The Chronicles of Narnia, of course, and The Screwtape Letters, which is hilarious and a lot of fun, but I had to push myself through his Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength).
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Date: 2008-08-08 05:32 pm (UTC)*nod* I can see how it'd make you uncomfortable. It kind of makes me shift in my chair, too. The nature of fantasy calls for a lot of exploring, though, and it sounds like the author doesn't *quite* understand that. I have to wonder what examples of genre they've read.
I'm sufficiently aware of my own biases that I have to examine my response to these definitions, but I genuinely feel that it is not so much that the author is looking at fantasy and science fiction from a Christian perspective, which is perfectly valid, but that in doing so they are skewing the definitions they offer. Also, I guess, with their inclusion of invitations to their audience to, hmm, redirect the focus of at least some of the subgenres to include a more Christian attitude. Which I have no problem with as an activity--the more people writing from different perspective, the better, so far as I'm concerned--I just don't see a list of definitions as the place to express this.
As an aside, I've read a bit of C.S. Lewis, whose works are (in my experience) often, if not always, from a Christian perspective. (I've read that he converted to Catholicism as an adult.) Some of them I've enjoyed, The Chronicles of Narnia, of course, and The Screwtape Letters, which is hilarious and a lot of fun, but I had to push myself through his Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength).