I missed this news when it occurred in July — Robert L. Short, who wrote a series of books looking at biblical themes in Peanuts, passed away.<\/p>\n
The three books he wrote about Peanuts, starting with the best-selling The Gospel According To Peanuts<\/strong><\/a>, through The Parables of Peanuts<\/strong><\/a>, and ending with Short Meditations on the Bible and Peanuts<\/strong><\/a>, varied in overall interest for someone coming at them from the angle of being a Peanuts fan. The earliest was really alook at the strip and finding the biblical and values commentary therein, but they slid more into being looks at biblical concepts and finding a strip that simply illustrated the point. But still, it was an interesting angle to take, and it’s worth reading the first one.<\/p>\n I’ve long meant to do more research into this, but I think Short may have launched an industry. Nowadays, books that use some specific pop culture series as the base for looking at some specific discipine – physics in Star Wars<\/em>, philosophy in Buffy<\/em>, religion in The Simpsons<\/em>, and so forth – are pretty common. But did such a form exist in 1965? I’ve seen no sign of it.\u00a0 I can’t promise it isn’t out there, but I’d be a little surprised if it was. A lot of writers out there may owe him, whether they know it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I missed this news when it occurred in July — Robert L. Short, who wrote a series of books looking at biblical themes in Peanuts, passed away. The three books he wrote about Peanuts, starting with the best-selling The Gospel According To Peanuts, through The Parables of Peanuts, and ending … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schulzpeanuts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}