(urth) Bringin' it back to Wolfe by the long road
James B. Jordan
jbjordan4 at cox.net
Tue Apr 17 11:43:29 PDT 2007
At 01:15 PM 4/17/2007, you wrote:
>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes writes:
>
> >
> > I must disagree. This *is* a Christian universe
>
>
>Only in the same limited sense that Middle-Earth is "Christian."
>
>There is no Christ, no Theoanthropos.
>
>Yes, I agree with your other points (indeed I've probably made most of them
>myself somewhere in the archives) but this is the only really meaningful
>definition of "Christian."
I suppose one must grant Tolkein what he's doing: presenting a
pre-Christian world, indeed pre-Abrahamic. Hence, no Christ . . .
yet. No Sabbath Day formal worship . . . yet. Similarly, Wolfe in the
Latro series. For the rest of Wolfe's works, however, the setting is
Anno Domini (as he'd surely prefer to put it), and hence the
"Christ-event" is somewhere in the past.
FWIW
Nutria (I've been away. Have we dispensed with animal names?)
James B. Jordan
Director, Biblical Horizons
Box 1096
Niceville, FL 32588
http://www.biblicalhorizons.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20070417/53312b27/attachment-0005.htm>
More information about the Urth
mailing list