Fascinating that Lewis is so important to US evangelicals, and for the reason you give. Here in England my impression has been that belonging to an evangelical church normally means being much more modern, with the endless new songs on the theme of telling Jesus how amazing he is and very little liturgy. I'd need to have a chat with the local (evangelical) vicar to find out what he thinks of Lewis!
I hear you on all this. I think I was maybe parroting an older belief regarding magic and sorcery that I hadn't really examined in a while. Prolly just cause I am reading the Matter with Things tonight I can't help but wonder if there is a left brain heavy approach to such business that, regardless of team or hometown, spins the act into a grab or an either/or bend of vision that gets in the business and turns it to a thing less than whole-making.
I was so immersed in inkling stuff in another lifetime that much of this is by memory. I haven't really returned to any of it since animism, the feminine half of G-d, and the multiplicity in general became normative for me. Except inkling adjacent MacDonald and Tolkien's stuff on fairy and Beowulf. I need to read the Discarded Image again. Oh....and of course Barfield is finally making some sense to me on this side of it all. Sorta. Does anyone really totally get him yet? I dunno.
I do have plans this season to pick a fight with the weight of glory sermon. So much depends on ending the conflation of world with earth.
I haven't read enough Williams to be honest. I read two or three of his novels, prolly before I was even fully a soul and never went back for no explainable reason. What's your top pick?
I feel like Lewis can be both. Have you seen this: https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/a-prophecy-of-evil-tolkien-lewis, and this: https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/you-need-to-be-cringemaxxing
Fascinating that Lewis is so important to US evangelicals, and for the reason you give. Here in England my impression has been that belonging to an evangelical church normally means being much more modern, with the endless new songs on the theme of telling Jesus how amazing he is and very little liturgy. I'd need to have a chat with the local (evangelical) vicar to find out what he thinks of Lewis!
I hear you on all this. I think I was maybe parroting an older belief regarding magic and sorcery that I hadn't really examined in a while. Prolly just cause I am reading the Matter with Things tonight I can't help but wonder if there is a left brain heavy approach to such business that, regardless of team or hometown, spins the act into a grab or an either/or bend of vision that gets in the business and turns it to a thing less than whole-making.
I was so immersed in inkling stuff in another lifetime that much of this is by memory. I haven't really returned to any of it since animism, the feminine half of G-d, and the multiplicity in general became normative for me. Except inkling adjacent MacDonald and Tolkien's stuff on fairy and Beowulf. I need to read the Discarded Image again. Oh....and of course Barfield is finally making some sense to me on this side of it all. Sorta. Does anyone really totally get him yet? I dunno.
I do have plans this season to pick a fight with the weight of glory sermon. So much depends on ending the conflation of world with earth.
I haven't read enough Williams to be honest. I read two or three of his novels, prolly before I was even fully a soul and never went back for no explainable reason. What's your top pick?