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Christian novel

Index Christian novel

A Christian novel is any novel that expounds and illustrates a Christian world view in its plot, its characters, or both, also seen in the Bible. [1]

71 relations: A Live Coal in the Sea, Allegory in the Middle Ages, Amish romance, Aslan, Baker Publishing Group, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Bethany House, Bible, Bible fiction, Bible prophecy, C. S. Lewis, Christian, Christology, Christy Award, Count It All Joy, Dante Alighieri, Dark Night of the Soul, David C. Cook, Detective fiction, Divine Comedy, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Fantasy, Father Brown, Francine Rivers, Frank E. Peretti, G. K. Chesterton, Galactic Milieu Series, HarperCollins, Harvest House, J. R. R. Tolkien, Janette Oke, John Bunyan, Judith McCoy Miller, Julian May, Karen Kingsbury, Kregel Publications, Left Behind, List of Christian fiction authors, List of Christian novels, Love Comes Softly, Madeleine L'Engle, My Fabulous Gay Wedding, Novel, Persecution, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Piers Plowman, Publishers Weekly, Random House, Robert Liparulo, Robert Whitlow, ..., Romance novel, Salvation, Sarah Price (author), Simon & Schuster, T. D. Jakes, Ted Dekker, The Holy War, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Shack, This Present Darkness, Thomas Nelson (publisher), Thriller (genre), Til Debt Do Us Part, Tosca Lee, Tracie Peterson, Tyndale House, William P. Young, World view, Zondervan. Expand index (21 more) »

A Live Coal in the Sea

A Live Coal in the Sea, written by Madeleine L'Engle and published in 1996, is the sequel to Camilla Dickinson (also published as Camilla), one of L'Engle's earliest novels.

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Allegory in the Middle Ages

Allegory in the Middle Ages was a vital element in the synthesis of biblical and classical traditions into what would become recognizable as medieval culture.

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Amish romance

Amish romance is a literary subgenre of Christian fiction featuring Amish characters, but written and read mostly by evangelical Christian women.

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Aslan

Aslan is a main character in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series.

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Baker Publishing Group

Baker Publishing Group is a Christian book publisher based in Ada, Michigan.

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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century".

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Bethany House

Bethany House Publishers is a publisher that publishes Christian fiction and non-fiction books.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Bible fiction

The term Bible fiction refers to works of fiction which use characters, settings and events taken from the Bible.

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Bible prophecy

Bible prophecy or biblical prophecy comprises the passages of the Bible that reflect communications from God to humans through prophets.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christology

Christology (from Greek Χριστός Khristós and -λογία, -logia) is the field of study within Christian theology which is primarily concerned with the ontology and person of Jesus as recorded in the canonical Gospels and the epistles of the New Testament.

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Christy Award

The Christy Awards are awarded each year to recognize novels of excellence written from a Christian worldview.

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Count It All Joy

Count It All Joy is the ninth album from American gospel music artist Susie Luchsinger.

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Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.

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Dark Night of the Soul

Dark Night of the Soul (La noche oscura del alma) is a poem written by the 16th-century Spanish mystic and poet St. John of the Cross.

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David C. Cook

David C Cook is a nonprofit Christian publisher based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.

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Electronic Communications Privacy Act

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) was enacted by the United States Congress to extend government restrictions on wire taps from telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer (et seq.), added new provisions prohibiting access to stored electronic communications, i.e., the Stored Communications Act (SCA, et seq.), and added so-called pen trap provisions that permit the tracing of telephone communications (et seq.). ECPA was an amendment to Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (the Wiretap Statute), which was primarily designed to prevent unauthorized government access to private electronic communications.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Father Brown

Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton.

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Francine Rivers

Francine Sandra Rivers (born 1947) is an American author of fiction with Christian themes, including inspirational romance novels.

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Frank E. Peretti

Frank Edward Peretti (born January 13, 1951) is a New York Times best-selling author of Christian fiction, whose novels primarily focus on the supernatural.

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.

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Galactic Milieu Series

The Galactic Milieu Series of science fiction novels by Julian May is the sequel (and prequel) to her Saga of Pliocene Exile.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Harvest House

Harvest House Publishers is a Christian publishing company founded in 1974 in Irvine, California, United States, and is now located in Eugene, Oregon.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Janette Oke

Janette Oke (née Steeves; born February 18, 1935) is a Canadian author of inspirational fiction.

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan (baptised November 30, 1628August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.

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Judith McCoy Miller

Judith McCoy Miller (born 1944) is an author of Christian fiction.

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Julian May

Julian Clare May (July 10, 1931 – October 17, 2017) was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also used several literary pseudonyms.

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Karen Kingsbury

Karen Kingsbury (born June 8, 1963) is an American Christian novelist born in Fairfax, Virginia.

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Kregel Publications

Kregel Publications is an Evangelical Christian book publisher based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Left Behind

Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling religious novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: the pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological interpretation of the Biblical apocalypse.

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List of Christian fiction authors

This is a list of authors of Christian fiction.

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List of Christian novels

This is a list of published titles in the Christian fiction genre, some recently published, some best-sellers.

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Love Comes Softly

Love Comes Softly is a 2003 Christian drama television movie set in the 19th century, based on a series of books by Janette Oke.

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Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle Camp (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer who wrote young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.

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My Fabulous Gay Wedding

My Fabulous Gay Wedding is a Canadian reality show hosted by comedian Scott Thompson in the first season and Elvira Kurt in the second.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Persecution

Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group.

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man.

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Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman (written 1370–90) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Robert Liparulo

Robert Liparulo is an American former journalist turned author living in Monument, Colorado.

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Robert Whitlow

Robert Whitlow is a film-maker and a best-selling author of fifteen legal thrillers.

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Romance novel

Although the genre is very old, the romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass-market version.

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Salvation

Salvation (salvatio; sōtēría; yāšaʕ; al-ḵalaṣ) is being saved or protected from harm or being saved or delivered from a dire situation.

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Sarah Price (author)

Sarah Price is a Christian fiction novelist and adult and children's author of over 40 books.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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T. D. Jakes

Thomas Dexter Jakes Sr. (born June 9, 1957), known as T. D.

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Ted Dekker

Ted Dekker (born October 24, 1962) is an American author of mystery, thriller, and fantasy novels including Thr3e, Obsessed, and the Circle Series.

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The Holy War

The Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, to Regain the Metropolis of the World, Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul is a 1682 novel by John Bunyan.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950.

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan.

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The Shack

The Shack is a novel by Canadian author William P. Young that was published in 2007.

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This Present Darkness

This Present Darkness is a Christian novel by Frank E. Peretti.

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Thomas Nelson (publisher)

Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland in 1798 as the namesake of its founder.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres.

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Til Debt Do Us Part

Til Debt Do Us Part is a Canadian television series produced by Frantic Films for Slice in Canada, Zone Reality in the United Kingdom and AmericanLife TV Network and CNBC in the United States.

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Tosca Lee

Tosca Lee (born December 1, 1969) is a bestselling American author of historical novels and supernatural thrillers.

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Tracie Peterson

Tracie Peterson (born 1959) is an author of Christian fiction.

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Tyndale House

Tyndale House is a publisher founded in 1962 by Kenneth N. Taylor, in order to publish his paraphrase of the Epistles, which he had composed while commuting to work at Moody Press in Chicago.

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William P. Young

William Paul Young (born May 11, 1955) is a Canadian author.

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World view

A world view or worldview is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge and point of view.

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Zondervan

Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_novel

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