liberal bastions, duelling...

[phishbreath]

from the New Yorker on Lewis's LWW by Adam Gopnik:

Yet a central point of the Gospel story is that Jesus is not the lion of the faith but the lamb of God, while his other symbolic animal is, specifically, the lowly and bedraggled donkey. The moral force of the Christian story is that the lions are all on the other side. If we had, say, a donkey, a

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[1_peach_2_peach]

"Lion of Judah" ring any bells? Don't these people consult anyone who is closer to the subject than they are? I wonder if they would like to hire me as their theological consultant/editor.

a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing

[gurghi]

I'm thankful for the NYer article, just b/c it takes Lewis seriously. But only up to a point... author Gopnik's posture is so, so indicative of the myopia with which religious discourse is viewed in the "secular" sphere. Most grievously, he seems to regard Lewis' Anglicanism as more vital than his Christianity, and not only that but to assume that's how Lewis saw it, too.

Then again, we most often paint others with the colors we paint ourselves. It's evidently a pretty limited palate, Mr. Gopnik's, when it comes to faith: tribal and idiosyncratic. In that respect, it's not unlike the Christian right and the Islam extremists...

Mithrake?

[hizonerthemayor]

What the hell kind of a name is Gopnik anyway?

[invicta_alata]

Hey, did I hear you're in town?

[phishbreath]

indeed, just returned... email me your number, I know a place or two that serve beer - and we can talk books.

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