(urth) UotNS and how it screws with your head

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Tue Jul 13 11:26:11 PDT 2010


That this is not obvious to everybody is remarkable.

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> I think Wolfe has suggested more than once that our lives are 'a Christmas
> present'.  Even if there's nothing else, it's all Good.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
>
> From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Wolfe is usually portrayed as a devout Catholic but, given his writing,
>> I
>> have serious
>> doubts whether he has the same view of grace and the "God Is Love" stuff
>> that most
>> Christians have or are supposed to have. He really seems to have a dark
>> and pessimistic
>> side which comes out in pretty much all his work. Where, in his work, is
>> the shining,
>> uncompromised redemption we must (as christians) eventually, somehow
>> achieve? Is he
>> saving that for his last novel maybe?
>
> I think this deeply misunderstands Wolfe and Christianity.
> Christianity is pretty much a "dark and pessimistic" religion when it
> comes to the nature of this world. Christians believe that the
> Universe is _broken_, beyond repair; God's only option for redemption
> is Apocalypse, end the whole thing and start again. The only optimism
> comes in the belief that some of us will get to participate in the
> rebooted, unbroken Universe. C.S. Lewis put it very nicely:
> Christianity is an underground movement in an occupied territory.
>
> Nor is redemption something we must "achieve." It is given to us,
> undeservedly; that's what "grace" is all about.
>
>
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