christians can you please tell me what do you consider the 3 most important works of literature of all times??

Question

augustine considering the bible a work of literature means considering the bible a fiction

now i could say that 2 out of three christians consider the bible to be "literature"

and more christians including the bible in the literature section in a library...next to harry potters books maybe?

that is why in English literature in school you study "the demographic growth of Britain the second half of the 20th century"...literature is not everything written...o my how can you call someone iliterate when you dont know a thing??? please refer to Umberto Eco, Susan Sontag, even Aristotle to learn what literature is.

Answer 1

Holy Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, and Catechism of the Catholic Church (Foxes' Book of Martyrs, Augustine's Confessions and War of the Jews by Josephus are all excellent classic works as well) I would also add the titles listed by delsydebothom.

Come to think of it, to pick only three is very difficult.

P.S.... Please explain the rationale of classifying a work as "Fiction" simply by labeling the work "Literature". If you were to better define your parameters I suppose I could redefine my list. By the way, your cute little trick has still proven nothing. You should try again.

Answer 2

Your definition of literature as fiction (passim your comment on Augustine) seems idiosyncratic to me. How about this: Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary. I think the term has generally come to identify a collection of texts or works of art, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, plus other forms of oral poetry, and folktale.

If that is a good working definition then my three choices (spanning the centuries)

1. Ethics -- Aristotle
2. Principia Mathematica -- Newton
3. The Greatest Generation -- Brokaw

HTH

Charles

Answer 3

I am not a Christian, but I'd like to add a book that is very rarely mentioned. The Book of Margery Kempe. It is the earliest surviving autobiographical writing in English. Kempe lived in Lynn, Norfolk, in the late fourteenth-century. She had 14 children and then began her many pilgrimages. Although famed for the exuberance of her religious experiences, the book also reveals incidental details about Kempe's marriage, work and daily life. It is a truly fascinating read.
I also love The Pilgrim's Progress and Pay It Forward, an inspirational book with a great moral lesson for Christians and non-Christians alike. When you read it, you really feel that you could change the world. I'll leave the Bible out because most people have read or are well versed in it.

Answer 4

The Da Vinci Code by author Dan Brown

The Secret By Rhonda Byrne

The Celestine Prophecy By James Redfield

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 5

What makes a book called literature also be classified fiction.
There is fiction and non fiction and the Bible is definitely
NOT FICTION !!
Go back to school. Literature is anything written, fiction or non fiction.

Answer 6

lit·er·a·ture /ˈlɪtərətʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈlɪtrə-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[lit-er-uh-cher, -choor, li-truh-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
2. the entire body of writings of a specific language, period, people, etc.: the literature of England.
3. the writings dealing with a particular subject: the literature of ornithology.
4. the profession of a writer or author.
5. literary work or production.
6. any kind of printed material, as circulars, leaflets, or handbills: literature describing company products.
7. Archaic. polite learning; literary culture; appreciation of letters and books.


fic·tion /ˈfɪkʃən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fik-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form.
2. works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
3. something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story: We've all heard the fiction of her being in delicate health.
4. the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining.
5. an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation.
6. Law. an allegation that a fact exists that is known not to exist, made by authority of law to bring a case within the operation of a rule of law.

The bible is literature but the fiction is in your/ones head. No offense!!

Answer 7

Outside of the Sacred Scriptures: The Summa Theologica, the Magna Carta, and the Theology of the Body.

Answer 8

Christian:
Anything by Frank Peretti


Non-Christian:

Great Gatsby
Tale of Two Cities
1776

Answer 9

1. Harry Potter
2. Lord of the Rings/ Chronicles of Narnia ( written by two friends, about similar things)
3. Classics like Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dante's Inferno.

Answer 10

Well, the bible is the most important book ever. But I wouldnt call it a work of literature. It is God inspired words to show us how to live our life pleasing to him.