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Allegory
From a netfriend: For Lewis, “allegory” was limited to writing where abstract concepts were represented by material forms. So a book like “The Fairy Queen” where Sir Jurisprudence rescues Lady Justice from the Dragon Tort; or “The Pilgrims Progress” where Christian is imprisoned in a Tower called “Doubt” by a Giant called “Despair” but frees […]
Lewis on allegory vs myth
C. S. Lewis on allegory vs myth Here’s a Lewis quote (not verified, someone had typed it into a blog) that shows something about what he (at least) meant by ‘allegory.’ “Human intellect,” says Lewis, “is incurably abstract…Yet the only realities we experience are concrete–this pain, this pleasure, this dog, this man. …. In the […]
The Church Between Gospel And Culture
The Church Between Gospel And Culture | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough This book represents a compilation of sixteen authors. Its focus is Emerging Church missiology in North America, and it is written against the backdrop of declining membership in mainline Churches. Having read it from cover to cover — and allowing myself a […]
Jack’s Life: The Life Story of C. S. Lewis
Jack’s Life: The Life Story of C. S. Lewis by Douglas Gresham, Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005. “Imagination is the only way we have of getting beyond the evidence of our own eyes and reaching for God” – Doug Gresham First, a declaration of personal interest: I met Doug after his conversion (reconversion?) to Christianity […]
The Matrix
The Matrix | Film Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough While the Matrix is not a Christian film, it is an archetypal postmodern film (released in 1999), and for this reason serves as required viewing at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. With this in mind, this review represents a survey of the postmodern themes in […]
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (Francis Wheen, Fourth Estate, 2004) Harvey Cox, professor of divinity at Harvard University, was reading the business pages of newspapers, and had an urgent thought: ‘One sometimes wonders,’ he writes, ‘in this era of market religion, where all the sceptics and freethinkers have gone. […]
Beautiful Words – The Writing of F.W. Boreham
Beautiful Words – The Writing of F.W. Boreham (1871-1959) Literary, whimsical, insightful, creative, warm, optimistic, humorous, imaginative, beautiful and delightful are words that come to mind when I think of the writing of F.W. Boreham. He was the Max Lucado of his day. If you were traveling by train through the English countryside, you might […]
Isolation (Book Review)
December 31, 2005 4:49 AM Isolation | Book Review In this book, Dr. Shelley Trebesch describes a common experience of Christian leadership, which she gives the label “isolation”. This need not refer to physical isolation — one may understand it figuratively as well. It may include “isolation, conflict, and life crises” which “deepen a leader’s […]
Narnia (more)
From another netfriend: However, [The Narnia Chronicles] do promote a Christianity-as-the-right-way mindset in many subtle ways – for example, in the fact that the “bad” nation of Calormen neighbouring Narnia has distinctly Turkish (and therefore Islamic, though I hesitate to make that point in the current political climate) overtones in both dress and culture. I […]
Narnia
From a netfriend: I¹m looking forward to seeing the Narnia movie, but I¹m wary of the Christian marketing etc. I¹d also personally be very cautious about using the Bible Society materials as I think they run the risk of promoting a form of God that I find not only potentially inconsistent with the God of […]
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