{"id":735,"date":"2008-08-02T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/08\/did-they-have-christian-bookstores-then\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T13:57:00","slug":"did-they-have-christian-bookstores-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/08\/did-they-have-christian-bookstores-then.html","title":{"rendered":"Did they have Christian bookstores then?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">T.S. Eliot, in his essay \u2018Religion and Literature\u2019, written in 1935:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is our business, as readers of literature, to know what we like. It is our business, as Christians, <i>as well as<\/i> readers of literature, to know what we ought to like. It is our business as honest men not to assume that whatever we like is what we ought to like; and it is our business as honest Christians not to assume that we do like what we ought to like. And the last thing I would wish for would be the existence of two literatures, one for Christian consumption and the other for the pagan world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomandalissa.com\/archives\/739\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hat tip<\/a> to my colleague Alissa Wilkinson.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T.S. 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