The Parables of Peanuts [antikvár]

Preface Since 1964, when The Gospel According to Peanuts was first published, I have been invited by amazingly divergent groups from all over the country to come and bring my Peanuts color slides and to speak on the theological implications I see in Charles M. Schulz's phenomenally popular comic strip. Peanuts. I have gone. Actually, since that tiine I have been so busy ^'un-shelling" Peanuts for people that I've scarcely found time to craqk a book in working toward the doctorate in theology and literature I had been pursuing at the University of Chicago. But this kind of circuit-riding from airport to airport has furnished me with the rare opportunity of a close-up inspection of the very age and body, the form and pressure, of American Christianity today. And in reporting back on what my general impression has been, I must first confess that I've always identified more closely with Linus than with any of the other Peanuts characters. (Linus is the little boy with the blanket, obviously the most insecure of the Peanuts.) For my travels and opportunities to meet