Tag Archives: G.K. Chesterton

from strength to strength

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dave

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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finding eve: eternal mantle of the clouds

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dave

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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onward christian spacemen: the turning of the screwtape

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dave

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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as though paradise had never been lost

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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by another name

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

Attacking the enfranchised “unfit.” Purging society of those who do not measure up to the required standards of national efficiency, ( Henry Kissinger’s “useless eaters” ) or whatever euphemisms we may have to couch the theory of euthanasia, and the … Continue reading →

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shapes of things

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

Toward the middle of the 1890′s H.G. Wells began writing reviews, articles and stories. But he was not consciously starting a literary career. After all, he was a science instructor. But, an illness forced him out of teaching, and he … Continue reading →

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don’t mess with the holy fool

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dave

Regarded as a kind of holy fool who could stretch time and space while spitting on Isaac Newton’s cape and could scare off Voltaire with flashing visions of nihilistic revelry,a positive nihilism, a kind of messianic negation of the mundane … Continue reading →

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hitchens guide to the galaxy

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Dave

To many, he might not be missed, but he left few indifferent. A collision of atheism out of the academy and into the real world. He might have done for atheism what Marcel Duchamp did for art, except in reverse: … Continue reading →

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A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Dave

Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading →

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reason to believe or be deceived: who’s zoomin’ who

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Dave

The struggle between generations is one of the most obvious constants.The 1960′s were not unique in this sense, but were unique in terms of radical dissent and cultural innovation; an extreme form of alienation transformed from the typical peripheral experience … Continue reading →

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