The Scandal of Holiness - Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints av Jessica Hooten Wilson, Lauren Winner

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<b><i>Christianity Today </i></b><b>2023 Award of Merit (Culture & the Arts)<br/><br/></b>How do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year''s resolutions, vision boards, thirty-day plans, and self-help books often fail to compel us to live differently. We settle for small goals--frugal spending, less yelling at the kids, more time at the gym--but we are called to something far greater. We are created to be holy.<br/><br/>Award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson explains that learning to hear the call of holiness requires cultivating a new imagination--one rooted in the act of reading. Learning to read with eyes attuned to the saints who populate great works of literature moves us toward holiness, where God opens up a way of living that extends far beyond what we can conjure for ourselves. Literature has the power to show us what a holy life looks like, and these depictions often scandalize even as they shape our imagination. As such, careful reading becomes a sort of