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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Lee Berman <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
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<DIV>> On this note, I want to weigh in on something I've wanted to comment
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<DIV>> on for a while. Surely Wolfe sees all other heroes and
legends and divinities </DIV>
<DIV>> and rites and so on finding their fulfilment in Christ as understood
by the </DIV>
<DIV>> Catholic Church. He certainly allusively invites us to feel
resonances with </DIV>
<DIV>> #Hercules or Dionysus or whoever... but surely these summed up,
centred, </DIV>
<DIV>> and superseded in Christ? (For Wolfe. And his fiction.)
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<DIV>> (Leslie Newbiggin, a 20th century British theologian and missionary in
India </DIV>
<DIV>> for thirty years, would be a prominent exponent of this kind of
missiology and </DIV>
<DIV>> soteriology - i.e. rather than Christ simply destroying and replacing
all other </DIV>
<DIV>> 'pagan rivals', he fulfills what is best in them. This idea
seems intimately </DIV>
<DIV>> woven right through Wolfe's works to me.)</DIV>
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<DIV>I think that is true as far as pagan rivals is concerned. It is how I
understand the references to Dionysus and various other gods in the Solar
Cycle.</DIV>
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<DIV>However, I suspect Wolfe does not exclude the possibility of a continuing
Revelation – i.e. that in some future, Christ might also be superseded, or that
the Trinity might expand beyond three persons, or that an alien equivalent of
Christ be incarnated. That is to say, I don’t think he would consider the
doctrines of Rome to be set in stone for eternity.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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