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4.20 Clinton Manley • Reading • “How Then Shall We Mock? Ten Principles for Wielding the Sword of Holy Satire”
Episode 160
45 Min
May 5, 2025
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Properly wielded satire can be a weapon of exposing sin in the hope of reform. What are its rules of engagement for Christians?
Resources to Click
“How Then Shall We Mock?: Ten Principles for Wielding the Sword of Holy Satire”-
Clinton Manley
“The Serrated Edge of Scripture: How God Uses Satire”
– Clinton Manley
“Humour”
– G.K. Chesterton
“On Satire, Moods, And What We’re Known For”
– Joe Rigney
“Letter XI: To the Reverend Fathers, The Jesuits”
– Blaise Pascal
“Against the Valentinians”
– Tertullian
“
The Right to Ridicule?”
– Michael J. Ovey
“And Wilson, Almost Suitably Abashed, Responds”
– Doug Wilson
“The Use of Satire in the Book of Isaiah and in Christian Ministry
” – Tom Woolford
“When Should Christians use Satire?”
– John Piper
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Books to Read
Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion
– Os Guinness
“Satire” in the
Dictionary of Biblical Imagery
– Leland Ryken, James Wilholt
God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert
– Terry Lindvall
A Serrated Edge: A Brief Defense in Biblical Satire and Trinitarian Skylarking
– Doug Wilson
The Problem of Pain
– C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
– C.S. Lewis
Leadership and Emotional Sabotage
– Joe Rigney
Orthodoxy
– G.K. Chesterton
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