The Faithful Reader: Essays on Biblical Themes in Literature

Table of Contents	VII
Foreword: Biblical Integration at Cedarville University - Jason K. Lee	XI
Editor's Introduction - Justin D. Lyons	XVII
A Beautiful Life in Charlotte's Web - Emily Ferkaluk	3
The Power of Mercy in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - Bryana Fern	7
Love Begets Love: The Love of Lily and Harry - Alexis J. McKay	11
Penelope's Titus 2 Virtue - Emily Ferkaluk	15
The Enemy Within: Defoe's Crusoe, A Portrait of Human Sinfulness - Robert J. Clark	23
How Not to Chase a Turkey: Flannery O'Connor and Sellf-Centered Ambition - Stanley Schwartz	28
Short of the Glory of God: Human Nature in Lord of the Flies - Mark Caleb Smith	33
Sin and Forgiveness in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Ethan Brand - Justin D. Lyons	41
Scrooge and the Death That Gives Life - Justin D. Lyons	45
Imago Dei and Spiritual Indifference: Maycomb as a Microcosm of Christian Complacency - Holly Blakely	51
The Parable of Witness in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - Steven Gollmer	55
Trials and Temptations: Freedom Through Conviction in Jane Eyre - Bryana Fern	61
Purpose in Pain: John Green's The Fault in Our Stars with the Gospel Truth - Jasmine DePalmo and Michael Sherr	65
Staying the Course: Endurance and Hope in The Lord of the Rings - Bryana Fern	68
Suffering and Hope in Still Alice - Anna Hurt and Melissa Brown	72
The Redemption of Galadriel - Justin D. Lyons	79
All the King's Men: Power Corrupts - Mark Caleb Smith	83
"Gatsby believed in the green light": Materialism and Treasures in The Great Gatsby - Bryana Fern	88
The Dream of Narnia's Kings & Queens versus the Mirage of Edmund - J. Michael McKay Jr.	95
Eucatastrophe in The Lord of the Rings - Kirsten Setzkorn	99
Longing in The Wind in the Willows - Justin D. Lyons	103
Contributors	107

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