(urth) Wind god
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 15:41:03 PDT 2010
>> Lee Berman-
>> When you say "this is not theologically accurate, of course", do you mean because the story
>> implies Jesus was a man who was possessed by The Outsider god, rather than having been born
>> a deity or holy Savior?
Are we talking about what Silk says in the first chapter of Nightside?
"He would have to be firm with them, extremely firm. Remind them that
the Outsider was known to esteem them last among men already--that
according to the Writings he had once (having possessed and enlightened
a fortunate man) beaten them severely in person."
The concept of the Eternal Logos is one that is defined by Christian
theologians rather than understood. This is about as clear an
understanding as Silk could have realistically been expected to
comprehend at that point in the story.
As I've said before, I can see little narrative value in differentiating
between Severian existing in our future or in a previous cycle. I could
construct a self-consistent model in which they are different --
--one where the coming and sacrifice of the Christ works backwards and
forwards into adjacent cycles so others are enlightened by the story and
where there is a Catholic Church without a Christ for the same reason
grooms wear black in "There Are Doors" --
--but it all comes to the same thing from the point of view of the
characters and there's nothing like it explained in the story.
+u16b9
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