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A Mirror for Fools

An Illustrated Alphabet of Religious Satire
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Although laughter has been chased out of sanctuaries and chapels throughout history, it has always had a sneaky presence among religious authors and thinkers. John Lawing and Terry Lindvall (who team-taught graduate courses in Humor and Satire at Regent University in the antediluvian age) celebrate some of the more famous and provocative characters who scribbled funny thoughts on religious subjects with a visual exhibition of select cartoons and lots of doggerel. The authors' task is to instruct and delight, to bring laughter back into holy places and to remind readers of the Divine gift of laughter that marks their miserable pilgrimages. Walking readers from the ancient Greece of Aristophanes to the ironic shores of Kierkegaard's Denmark, A Mirror for Fools playfully presents a motley cast who communicated their wit on the stage of Heaven. From the Hebrew prophet Isaiah to the French cleric Rabelais, from the Roman Catholic Sir Thomas More, a man for all seasons, to the coarse Reformation monk Martin Luther, this fellowship of laughing saints gather to mock and tease and whoop it up, all to the glory of God.

Author Biography

John Lawing is Regent University Professor of Journalism emeritus and a national cartoonist and journalist who worked at Christianity Today for twenty years. Mr. Lawing has published in the New York Times, the Virginian-Pilot, and many other publications.
Release date NZ
July 15th, 2015
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributor
  • Illustrated by John Lawing
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Koehler Books
Pages
60
Publisher
Koehler Books
Dimensions
127x203x5
ISBN-13
9781633930247
Product ID
22761510

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