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assault on english
…The deadening influence that official jargon can exert upon thought was a topic that preoccupied George Orwell. … In Orwell’s novel, 1984 he recounted dramatically how a government in control of all media of communication can and will so degrade … Continue reading
big bang and it came upon us
The nature of evil, the mechanical moving parts that make up villainy.The question is always posed, so that the question reveals the answer: if humanity collectively does want evil, then why does it exist? The short answer is that goodness … Continue reading
the Fat lady
Finding behind the laughter all kinds of hate, cruelty and perverted fantasies. In a way, the Glasses are an intimate club, as David Leitch once said, a peculiarly intimate club in which Salinger’s readers were overtly invited to associate themselves … Continue reading
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bowing your head at the Name
If its not bent it’s broken. And if it’s not broken don’t fix it… In this sweeping theological fantasy, man is both reduced and exalted. Reduced in the naked depiction of his self-wrought condition, exalted through the mystery of the … Continue reading
from strength to strength
C.S. Lewis. The Christian spaceman who put theology into outer space and planetary adventure… The third novel in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy series , That Hideous Strength, is a buyoant satire on the overweening pretensions of technology and the social … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, j.r.r. tolkein, Jan van Eyck, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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finding eve: eternal mantle of the clouds
C.S. Lewis, the Apostle to the Skeptics. The man who admitted that god was god and became “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England.” With his space trilogy, he became the Christian spaceman… In contrast to our … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Perelandra, Chad Walsh, Charles Williams, Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, George MacDonald, George Macdonald Victorian mystic, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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onward christian spacemen: the turning of the screwtape
C.S. Lewis was an English man of letters who made theology a form of entertainment in The Screwtape Letters, then with his space trilogy theology went astral… The overwhelming distances of astronomy, which leaves the human helpless in the presence … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Malacandra, C.S. Lewis Perelandra, Chad Walsh, Charles Williams, G.K. Chesterton, George Macdonald Victorian mystic, j.r.r. tolkein, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Lucas Cranach the Elder
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as though paradise had never been lost
Christian theology projected beyond earth and man, a theology of the universe at the dawn of the space age was what C.S. Lewis was tapping into. ” as though Paradise had never been lost and earliest dreams were true, the … Continue reading
silent planets: the hack paints back
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes, Maplewood, N.J.) Out of the Silent Planet Avon, 1956 Illustration: Everett Raymond Kinstler (b. 1926) Part one of the “Space Trilogy” of stories—also referred to in literary descriptions as the Cosmic Trilogy … Continue reading
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