<div>Oh, no, I don't think he's in the Mel Gibson camp. Some of his non-mainstream views seem to be, if anything, on the other side--he apparently gives great salvific power to faith in non-Christian religions, and even to faith in religions with explicitly false or evil gods, and he believes (or says he believes, of course) that pagan gods were real beings but not demons. So I'd say he's on the broad-minded side of orthodox Catholicism. </div>
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<div>I think it's true that Wolfe draws from that Neo-Platonic mess that influenced Gnosticism, the Kabbalah and most of the Western mystical tradition, but I'm not sure how much of that is setting and how much is belief. <br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/16/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Thornton</b> <<a href="mailto:adam@io.com">adam@io.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span class="q">On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:48 PM, John Watkins wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Wolfe is not a heretic. He plays with extra-orthodox but not unorthodox ideas, if that's clear--he believes or seems to believe many things that are permissible but not required for a Catholic, but I've yet to encounter an overt endorsement of some doctrine that Catholics are forbidden to hold in his works.<br>
</blockquote><br></span>So--and I mean this less snarkily than it sounds--he's sort of in the Mel Gibson camp then?<br><br>Come to think of it, most of the dualisms I can think of are probably anti-Manichean, as they demonstrate that the demiurgic creation is a fatally flawed creation which ends up evilly even with good initial intent. (_Memorare_, here, or indeed the _WK_ cosmology)<br>
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