Gene C. Fant Jr. > Quotes

“For Christians who desire to write, the call to read broadly is an absolute necessity, for writing is, in many ways, the process of digesting and synthesizing not only the thoughts and experiences of a writer's own life, but the writer's intellectual wanderings as well.”
― Gene C. Fant Jr., God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative

“The greatest writers in the world have stolen the greatest Story ever told, time and time again. Christians should recognize this Story and seize the opportunity presented by this towering influence.”
― Gene C. Fant Jr., God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative

“When we write stories that are happy, with little conflict or inference of sin, then we are creating portraits of the world that perpetuate a sort of "soft universalism," the idea that no one is truly lost but rather that all are actually saved.”
― Gene C. Fant Jr., God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative

“One of the ways that Christianity can contribute to literary criticism and hermeneutics is by emphasizing its specific distinctives: connectedness, hope, and purposeful meaning.”
― Gene C. Fant Jr., God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative

“The Christian gospel especially is at its heart a living story, not an abstract system.”
― Gene C. Fant Jr., God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative

“Our mission as thinking Christians who seek to love God with our minds should find expression in the way that we read.”
― Gene C. Fant Jr., God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative

“Each theme employs elements of the Restoration Narrative, opening up each work for serious theological consideration. T. S. Eliot once observed that “mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.”17 The greatest writers in the world have stolen the greatest Story ever told, time and time again. Christians should recognize this Story and seize the opportunity presented by this towering influence.”
― Gene C. Fant Jr., God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative