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Summary: John Bunyan would not recognize his story...
Review: When a classic book is re-written for children, one of the things I expect is enough faithfulness to the original story so that a child who has read the children's version can, as an adult, pick up the full original and recognize a story they are familiar with. I have read John Bunyan's Holy War, and I have read this re-write called "Target Earth!" Target Earth fails the test. It is true there is imagery and a story line coming from Bunyan's original work, but it is crowded out by the un-nessecary device of telling the story through the experiances of two "young" angels, and a general mediocrity in writing that falls far short of the richness of a true classic.I am also very concerned about how Mr. Christopher Wright choose to describe the Trinity (Page 107). At face value, the description sets forth the modalistic error in contrast to the full and careful Trinitarian view of the historic orthodox church that John Bunyan would have held to. (See the Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 2, paragraph 3.) On this basis alone, this book is not one I want my children to read. I want to believe that Mr. Wright does hold the orthodox Biblical view of the three persons of the Trinity, and this passage reflects an un-fortunate choice of words. I leave him free to explain or clarify as he chooses. It will be for someone else to re-write this classic in a way that repects the original, and gives children an authentic introduction to John Bunyan's "Holy War".
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