![]() Which is just as well, as the actual text – in which Robert Short explores how the Peanuts strips reflect key themes in the Gospels – would have been over my head. ![]() I remember checking this out of the library when I was a kid, but I mainly just read the comics. Amazingly, this book still sells over fifty years later. As theology, it's something people will read who want to read it, and they can expect a solid work. The Peanuts panels that illustrate this work are fun, and well chosen. Paul and the synoptic gospels as much as you'll read about Lucy, Linus and Schroeder. Short calls "the hound of heaven." But remember this is a work of theology, so you'll see references to Karl Barth, St. Charlie Brown, classic misfit, is the "star" of the book, but you'll see other characters dealt with, even Snoopy, whom author Robert L. ![]() Instead, it's a fairly conservative work that uses the existential and moral crises of the various Peanuts characters to illustrate how their "grief," good or not, was foreshadowed in the bible. It is not an indictment of the current church like RESIDENT ALIENS, or a work of pop sociology like THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SIMPSONS. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PEANUTS is, as the title implies, a work of theology from a Christian, specifically New Testament, perspective. At the height of Peanuts-mania, in 1965, this unusual but highly successful book appeared. ![]()
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