Christian Fiction Books – Knowing More About It

As each day passes, more and more Christian fiction books are gaining popularity. However, some people still think that the content of Christian fiction today is not the same as before. For those who are not familiar with Christian fiction though, let’s define it first.

Compared to contemporary fiction, defining Christian fiction books is a little tricky. Generally speaking, Christian fiction is any writing that incorporates a Christian theme or viewpoint and beliefs in its storyline.

These kinds of books helps its readers get familiar with the Christian fair, sometimes even authors use it to examine their own beliefs; tackling philosophical, moral, and ethical questions and hoping to get some insight from it.

For example, you have C.S. Lewis’ books; most of them are actually considered to be Christian fiction books since they provide allegorical references to the faith. Of course, the argument that when a Christian writes it is automatically Christian writing is still up for debate and purely on the judgment of the reader.

Christian fiction books create a huge important to readers and help them get acquainted and get a better perspective about their faith.

If you want to find out more or maybe you are looking to brush up on classic Christian fiction books, then here are some books that you can go ahead and start with.

The Screwtape Letters

This is one of C.S. Lewis’ most famous book apart from The Chronicles of Narnia; this book was praised by plenty of evangelical writers. The book is about Screwtape, who is an administrative assistant in hell and he is giving advice to his young assistant, Wormwood.

Wormwood is tasked to corrupt a young man, so he is getting advice and opinion from Screwtape. This book was written by Lewis in a witty manner and explaining his ideologies in the viewpoint of a devil and the context of hell; making this books insightful and entertaining to read.

You can find great rationalization and insights about the various theological topics especially sin.

The Lord of the Rings

People who are now familiar with the Lord of the Rings as a movie might be shocked to find out that this book is actually classified as a Christian fiction book. In fact, the author, J.R.R. Tolkien was a great influence for C.S. Lewis as a Christian.

Tolkien was actually a devoted believer and spent a majority of his time writing his books. One of these books of course, came to be Lord of the Rings. The story centers on the character of Frodo Baggins who receives a ring from his uncle Bilbo Baggins. This same ring is powerful enough to be able to control the world and its bearer.

However, a great council has agreed that the ring is dangerous and needs to be destroyed; however, the only way for it to be destroyed is if it is thrown into the same fire that created it, which lies in Mordor. Even though Frodo is resolved in not using the ring, he is still weak and he struggles to fight off his urge to use the ring while it slowly poisons his personality.

The story has similarities and allegorical references to the story of Jesus and it also includes lessons about how goodness can never be achieved from evil things.

These classic Christian fiction books are just two of the hundreds, if not thousands, of Christian fiction books out there that you might want to cuddle up and read.