... I'm also looking forward to it for other reasons. At the Charles Williams Society 2004 conference, we were given a tantalising advance look at some of the...
suzanne bray
bray_suzanne@...
Jul 1, 2005 11:25 am
6058
... Thank you for this leading. However, this may be seen as going against the Genesis story of creation. Not a my problem, I have to say, but a theological...
AJA
ahnemann@...
Jul 1, 2005 3:21 pm
6059
... From: "Kevin Bowring" <bowring@...> ... Agreed on the above. But that said, it comes to a point where a word like Gnostic comes to mean too much,...
AJA
ahnemann@...
Jul 1, 2005 3:34 pm
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Thank you Nigel and Scott for news of good books and essays to come and such delectable quotes from St Clement, Thomas Vaughan and the wise Sybil. I am so...
... There was a hymn, "Lord of the Dance" by Sidney Carter, which always made me think of _The greater trumps_. And a few years ago I was in a monastery on...
Steve Hayes
shayes@...
Jul 5, 2005 7:15 pm
6062
... Mine too, well, Place of the Lion runs neck and neck with it! ... Indeed it is. And it is precisely those who seek to gain power who become enslaved by the...
Steve Hayes
shayes@...
Jul 5, 2005 7:15 pm
6063
... of ... always made me ... I used to sing it at primary school back in my idyllic 70s childhood! A beautiful hymn and it is very reminiscent of 'The Greater...
The Cosmic dance in The Greater Trumps Williams may have taken the idea from the Elizabethan poem Orchestra by John Davies (1569-1626),to which attention was...
The dance of course is a lot older than Sydney Carter; there is the mediaeval carol 'Tomorrow shall be my dancing day'. The idea also comes in 'Perelandra' and...
R. Sturch
rsturch@...
Jul 8, 2005 9:36 am
6066
What is the Christian to make of Lewis’ use of other, little g, gods in Till We Have Faces? It doesn’t bother me as Lewis is simply telling a story and ...
Joy Davidman Gresham collaborated with Lewis in writing TWHF- and the book is quite different from other CSL fiction as a result. For me, this is the best of...
AJA
ahnemann@...
Jul 8, 2005 1:53 pm
6068
My take - I don't do Tarot (I do happen to own a deck at the moment, which I had planned to use with a Stephen King's Dark _Tower-themed FRP game) but neither...
Hi Joel. A most amazing piece of fiction! I agree with Ann. I see the 'gods' motif in TWHF as a classical (Greek/Roman) reference- CSL was indeed a classicist....
Looking at the latest book reviews at Science and Theology News (http://www.stnews.org/index.php) I came on this statement: "Psi equals zero. This is the...
<<After the Chaplain read the prayer, the text was taken up next. Those of the boys that had a prayer book took them out. One boy had only a deck of cards, and...
MillerJimE@...
Jul 9, 2005 7:09 pm
6073
"Joy Davidman Gresham collaborated with Lewis in writing TWHF" ... This is widely reported in works written about CSL: _The Inklings Handbook_ by Duriez and...
AJA
ahnemann@...
Jul 9, 2005 9:08 pm
6074
... He does it in several other places -- in the space trilogy passim, and in the Narnia stories in "Prince Caspian" and "The voyage of the Dawn Teader" -- and...
Steve Hayes
shayes@...
Jul 10, 2005 6:02 am
6075
... I've always understood the Fool to represent Christ. So when I read the "esoteric" interpretations that see the Fool as folly, I'm reminded of I Co...
Steve Hayes
shayes@...
Jul 10, 2005 6:02 am
6076
Hah! They were still symbols, but of a different deity - Mammon! ;-) DDD ... this joke the ... commander, who is ... turned the ... down five...
There is no doubt that a link can be draw between how Psyche and the fool function within both works. Clydes S. Kilby late professor of Wheaton College and...
Damon DeLillo
ddelillo@...
Jul 11, 2005 4:52 pm
6078
Sybil can ... clouded ... loves. ... motives ... Very interesting commentary: Williams seems to repeatedly portray the ego-grasping desire to manipulate and...
... There is also the tradition of the saints who were "fools for Christ's sake". More common in the east (e.g. St Xenia of St Petersburg) but also in the west...
Steve Hayes
shayes@...
Jul 15, 2005 2:18 am
6080
Friends, I am back after a hiatus of maybe...2 years or more? In any case hello all! I have a question,related to a paper I am writing. I recall in one of the...
I lent my copy of War in Heaven so I can't look it up, but I know the passage is toward the beginning of that book. I think the police officer says it in the...
Thanks to Dan's hint, I found it. It's the last paragraph of Chapter One, page 14 in my Eerdmans' edition. Stewart ... -- Don't forget, it takes a real Viking...
Stewart
slollar@...
Jul 18, 2005 3:01 am
6083
A warm thank you, to both respondants, who found the place in War in Heaven I had been seeking in vain near the end of the book. I am putting together, to...
... simultaneously peaceful and unbending, which was developed in resistance to totalitarian regimes, would be lost by tomorrow's Christianity.<< It would also...
MillerJimE@...
Jul 18, 2005 11:28 pm
6085
Jim makes a fair point which can be summarized in the Pogo quote of the subject head. At the same time I would note that I think the concern of Averintsev in...
... QUERY ON CHARLES WILLIAMS Friends, A query in aid of a paper I am writing for a converence themed from a quotation from Sergei S Averintsev in part For...
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