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Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
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Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
206 pages · First published 1980
Madeleine L’Engle reflects on the relationship between Christian faith and the creative life, arguing that making art can be an act of service rather than self-display. Drawing on Scripture, literature, personal experience, and her work as a novelist, she considers inspiration, discipline, failure, vulnerability, and the responsibility of the artist to serve the work itself. The book resists a rigid division between sacred and secular creativity, instead treating truthful art as capable of participating in a larger reality. Part memoir and part meditation, it is a thoughtful exploration of what it means to create faithfully without reducing art to propaganda.
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Christian theological reflection on art, creativity and vocation; discussion of difficult moral questions in literature and what children should encounter.
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