The Gospel According to Peanuts

Author: Robert L. Short
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664222222
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
While Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the Peanuts gang have enjoyed the kind of success most cartoon characters can only dream about--becoming pop culture icons of the highest order and entering the global consciousness practically as family members--Robert Short's The Gospel According to Peanuts also has found a place in the hearts of many readers, with sales now totaling more than ten million copies. This anniversary edition features a new cover, a new interior design, and a new foreword by Martin E. Marty. Whether coming to the book for the first time or taking a second look, a delightful experience awaits in this modern-day guide to the Christian faith, fully illustrated with Peanuts.

The Parables of Peanuts

Author: Robert L. Short
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Short Meditations on the Bible and Peanuts

Author: Robert L. Short
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664251529
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Offers Christian interpretations of the basic philosophies embodied in the Peanuts cartoon strip

The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life

Author: Andrew Blauner
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598536176
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artists Over the span of fifty years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture—hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. In The Peanuts Papers, thirty-three writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture. These enchanting, affecting, and often quite personal essays show just how much Peanuts means to its many admirers—and the ways it invites us to ponder, in the words of Sarah Boxer, “how to survive and still be a decent human being” in an often bewildering world. Featuring essays, memoirs, poems, and two original comic strips, here is the ultimate reader’s companion for every Peanuts fan. Featuring: Jill Bialosky Lisa Birnbach Sarah Boxer Jennifer Finney Boylan Ivan Brunetti Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell Rich Cohen Gerald Early Umberto Eco Jonathan Franzen Ira Glass Adam Gopnik David Hajdu Bruce Handy David Kamp Maxine Hong Kingston Chuck Klosterman Peter D. Kramer Jonathan Lethem Rick Moody Ann Patchett Kevin Powell Joe Queenan Nicole Rudick George Saunders Elissa Schappell Seth Janice Shapiro Mona Simpson Leslie Stein Clifford Thompson David L. Ulin Chris Ware

The Parables of Peanuts

Author: Robert L. Short
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060011610
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
First published in 1968, this contemporary case for vigorous Christian faith –– profusely illustrated by Charles Schulz‘s delightful peanuts cartoon strips –– sheds more light on the Christian faith and how it is to be lived than many more "serious" theological works, with hundreds of cartoons featuring your favorite peanuts characters Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, And of course, Snoopy (including the earliest red baron strips). This book‘s wise observations are as timeless as they are timely. "Short . . .succeeds in making theology enjoyable." ––Christian Century ". . . a real delight from beginning to end. I could not possibly be more pleased." ––Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts

A Charlie Brown Religion

Author: Stephen J. Lind
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496804694
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip franchise, the most successful of all time, forever changed the industry. For more than half a century, the endearing, witty insights brought to life by Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy have caused newspaper readers and television viewers across the globe to laugh, sigh, gasp, and ponder. A Charlie Brown Religion explores one of the most provocative topics Schulz broached in his heartwarming work--religion. Based on new archival research and original interviews with Schulz's family, friends, and colleagues, author Stephen J. Lind offers a new spiritual biography of the life and work of the great comic strip artist. In his lifetime, aficionados and detractors both labeled Schulz as a fundamentalist Christian or as an atheist. Yet his deeply personal views on faith have eluded journalists and biographers for decades. Previously unpublished writings from Schulz will move fans as they begin to see the nuances of the humorist's own complex, intense journey toward understanding God and faith. "There are three things that I've learned never to discuss with people," Linus says, "Religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." Yet with the support of religious communities, Schulz bravely defied convention and dared to express spiritual thought in the "funny pages," a secular, mainstream entertainment medium. This insightful, thorough study of the 17,897 Peanuts newspaper strips, seventy-five animated titles, and global merchandising empire will delight and intrigue as Schulz considers what it means to believe, what it means to doubt, and what it means to share faith with the world.

The Gospel According to the World's Greatest Superhero

Author: Stephen Skelton
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 9780736918121
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Skelton leads the reader through fast-paced discussions of such striking phenomena as the influence of Christ's life on superheroes, and the similarities between the devil and comic book protagonists.

The Gospel According to Hollywood

Author: Greg Garrett
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 0664230520
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
In this new book in the Gospel According To series, Garrett looks at the theological elements in dozens of classic Hollywood films, including a discussion about what the new openness to spirituality in the movies might mean for the future of American cinema and American religion. (Biblical Studies)

I'm Not Your Sweet Babboo!

Author: Charles M. Schulz
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449493165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
Comic strips starring Linus, Sally, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and more beloved characters—“relevant and funny for all ages generation after generation.” —Good Comics for Kids, a School Library Journal Blog Everyone’s favorite classic characters are back: Peppermint Patty enrolls in a private school to end her academic troubles—only to discover she’s just graduated from obedience school. Linus finds himself entangled in a love triangle (and stuck on top of a snow-covered roof). And Charlie Brown runs away from the law and becomes a vagrant baseball coach. The Peanuts crew is lovable, popular, and charming, but please, whatever you do, don’t call Linus “My Sweet Babboo”!

The Gospel According to Disney

Author: Mark I Pinsky
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664234676
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
In this follow-up to his bestselling The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family, religion journalist Mark Pinsky explores the role that the animated features of Walt Disney played on the moral and spiritual development of generations of children. Pinsky explores thirty-one of the most popular Disney films, as well as recent developments such as the 1990s boycott of Disney by the Southern Baptist Convention and the role that Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg played in the resurgance of the company since the mid-1980s.