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The point of this sub thread is precisely that according to orthodoxy Christ's ability to perform miracles was under the *human* part. The other issues you bring up are another mat…
07 Oct 2014, 13:37
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No dia 06/10/2014, ?s 19:41, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> escreveu: I think if I meant what you read I'd have to put in a parenthetical '(which he wasn't)'. You are …
06 Oct 2014, 19:53
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Dan'l, I don't know where you're getting my presentation of Catholic/Orthodox theology from, but your 'wrong' is wrong - where exactly did I say anything about the issue you mentio…
06 Oct 2014, 18:35
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Like any borderline idea, some theologians have entertained it at times, but it has never been entertained at large, seriously or otherwise. You can't really know what millions of …
06 Oct 2014, 15:31
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The Catholic attitude to Mary is only Catholic in that Protestants defined themselves against Catholics. Otherwise, it's the common or garden Christian attitude, from Rome to Const…
06 Oct 2014, 14:35
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Not necessarily. Pagan has meant 'polytheist' from early on. Non-polytheists might be hereticals, infidels, whatever, without necessarily being pagan. The idea that the Roman Churc…
06 Oct 2014, 13:55
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At the end of the day there must be more to a Correct Reading than that the author saying that's how he thought it out, which is an external factoid.…
06 Oct 2014, 11:30
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Christ the man performed miracles through his faith in God, nothing else. That is, Christ's ability to perform miracles wasn't in any way different from that of his disciples, who …
02 Oct 2014, 15:14
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And Christ performed miracles through faith, not by the use of some magical power belonging to himself.…
02 Oct 2014, 14:14
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This is a very important point.…
02 Oct 2014, 13:13
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Anyone who hasn't read Flann O' Brien / Brian O' Nolan / Myles, then do. Besides great, it's hysterical. No dia 14/09/2014, ?s 14:17, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com…
14 Sep 2014, 14:59
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No dia 11/09/2014, ?s 01:08, Thomas Bitterman <tom at bitterman.net> escreveu: But then again neither did the other, so the words must be read as approximate.…
11 Sep 2014, 01:07
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But that requires the Church to have fallen somewhere along the way, and the idea that the Church may fall is a heresy of much greater magnitude than Lee's issues with the reality …
10 Sep 2014, 18:43
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In about every case of attention being drawn to an unusual life span in literature, the answer is hidden reproduction. And doesn't The Phantom live in the jungle? I still don't lik…
09 Sep 2014, 18:47
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Gerry Quinn wrote (05-09-2014 11:20): Logival objections take the form "That leads to contradiction" or "Allowing that allows anything (so in what way is *that* better than the …
05 Sep 2014, 13:15
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Marc Aramini wrote (03-09-2014 14:28): He's said he doesn't expect everyone to get to the bottom of everything. Maybe that's right. Why do we need to? It's great to know that the…
03 Sep 2014, 13:45
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No dia 02/09/2014, ?s 23:24, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: You're assuming that it's a matter of exchanging titles. But if presented as straight reportage, it woul…
03 Sep 2014, 02:13
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No dia 02/09/2014, ?s 17:13, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: It may be, but that doesn't follow from the interview.…
02 Sep 2014, 16:53
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But notice that the ambiguity of some such names (and Silk is one of them) is part of the story (why have such a naming scheme anyway if not to abuse it), and such things can hardl…
27 Aug 2014, 18:31
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Gerry Quinn wrote (21-08-2014 15:51): Precisely in that the former can be made to look like the latter while remaining recoverable. And making the whole exploration of identity m…
21 Aug 2014, 16:42
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I find this interesting. If we are to believe Abos imitate other kinds, then they should imitate them along with their imperfections. That would suggest that an Abo imitating an A…
11 Aug 2014, 14:55
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No dia 10/08/2014, ?s 16:33, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: I don't think so. He's referring to his own line of analysis. I doubt he would criticise anyone who'd tr…
11 Aug 2014, 12:18
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No dia 10/08/2014, ?s 11:14, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: But that's not all you've been doing; you've gone far into saying some readings are all there is to a gi…
10 Aug 2014, 13:34
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Inasmuch as Gerry has said a lot of sensible stuff, the way he's applied it recently makes him more like the anti-Lee than anything else. Now, if I find Lee's stuff over the top, a…
10 Aug 2014, 00:04
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No dia 06/08/2014, ?s 14:22, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: You mean to say Wilfe wrote a story with a foregone unremarkable conclusion? Why write it at all? In whi…
07 Aug 2014, 13:49
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Years ago someone suggested it could be 151D, not Isid. Doesn't seem to help, tho. No dia 06/08/2014, ?s 20:22, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> escreveu:…
07 Aug 2014, 13:43
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That also had the advantage of not having such an elaborate thing as the Shadow Children come into play just to be inexplicably erased when the story closes. No dia 05/08/2014, ?…
05 Aug 2014, 22:03
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It's been a long time since I've read the book, but I don't recall thinking of the Shadow Children as human at all. I'm not saying that I rejected the idea of their being human, I'…
05 Aug 2014, 21:58
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No dia 02/08/2014, ?s 12:50, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: Keeping it all Wolfean there's the question - are the scenarios different in the end? (We do know the en…
02 Aug 2014, 14:49
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I've been wanting to say something about this since the beginning but only now did I find the time. My first thought was precisely that you should split it according to the type of…
02 Aug 2014, 01:10
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Yes, of course. My choice of words is due to the fact hat 1) I don't get this Wolfean linguistic ring from the rest of HPL and 2) tho I agree many of the piece's elements are quite…
30 Jun 2014, 16:55
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Hi. For some reason, I'd never read this short piece. Now I'm trying to fill the blanks in some authors, I've come across it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(short_stor…
30 Jun 2014, 15:43
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No dia 22/06/2014, ?s 15:33, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> escreveu: If he collects unnatural stuff, what can be puzzling or unique about yet another unnatural case? (th…
22 Jun 2014, 15:51
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No dia 29/05/2014, ?s 12:45, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> escreveu: Calling him Presley also seems quite complimentary, since Elvis wasn't calle…
29 May 2014, 13:35
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Gene Wolfe mentions King a number of times. Some of those are clearly Stephen King. SK is usually taken as an entertainer rather than a Writer (not by me, since my knowledge on the…
29 May 2014, 10:02
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I had just reread the story the day before Mo posted this. Someone once said that 'Wolfe doesn't lie in direct discourse'. I think what was meant is that all the 'unreliability' s…
28 May 2014, 21:33
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No dia 05/05/2014, ?s 15:54, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: I'm one of those eagerly waiting for a reply.…
06 May 2014, 09:33
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No dia 04/05/2014, ?s 21:34, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu: But why would the author not insert his original intention into the latter book?…
05 May 2014, 01:16
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And thus google cements its empire. No dia 29/04/2014, ?s 21:00, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> escreveu:…
30 Apr 2014, 20:36
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The theme of the elder brother being out of favour runs throughout the whole Bible, it would be hard to consider a specific case as standing out. No dia 30/04/2014, ?s 19:56, Mar…
30 Apr 2014, 20:36
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No dia 29/04/2014, ?s 22:47, Mo Holkar <lists at ukg.co.uk> escreveu: I doubt it is either. I recall having thought of something when I first read it, but can't remember what. T…
30 Apr 2014, 20:32
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I'm not sure that's enough - I have a filter to catch all Urth messages and send them to a Wolfe folder, and still it has happened a lot that I'm half way through one of Marc's mes…
28 Apr 2014, 23:28
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Spasibo. No dia 03/04/2014, ?s 00:40, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> escreveu:…
03 Apr 2014, 01:24
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Pardon my ignorance on Lafferty (to me, that name always evokes 'Winding your way down on Baker Street...'). What omnibus are you talking about and what are the 900 Grandmothers?…
02 Apr 2014, 23:36
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No dia 29/01/2014, ?s 21:59, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: And made at the top of a mountain looking at the world!…
30 Jan 2014, 00:57
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No dia 28/01/2014, ?s 01:12, Jonathan Goodwin <joncgoodwin at gmail.com> escreveu: It's been a while since I've read it, but does Severian not clarify to have relied on Typhon's i…
28 Jan 2014, 13:58
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No dia 22/01/2014, ?s 19:35, Piotr Szcz?sny <neternalz at gmail.com> escreveu: Yes. There are other words for 'peace', so this one was chosen for a reason. What I was wondering is…
23 Jan 2014, 01:18
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(...grumble about never having gone far enough with my polish...) Is 'Pok?j' the best translation for 'Peace' here? Aside from the mainstream classics, you hardly find anything o…
18 Jan 2014, 02:52
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I'd never heard of it, but from WP the rerelease appears not to change the order, only include stuff before and in the middle and the author's original intended ending. Have you re…
29 Dec 2013, 00:06
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David Stockhoff wrote (20-12-2013 13:19): I was thinking rather along the lines that the mausoleum be somehow displaced from normal space/time, hence accessible only to one able …
23 Dec 2013, 10:55
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