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My wild theory as to the origin of the black hole in the sun is the panther from *Soldier of Sidon*. Of course, it's far from established that the Latro books take place in the sa…
17 Jul 2008, 23:55
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I'm not convinced that the Hierogrammates put the black hole in the sun in the first place.…
17 Jul 2008, 16:57
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I think we're just discussing the finer points of the role of planetary intelligences in Ptolemaic cosmology. It's pretty far afield from the original point about the nature of th…
17 Jul 2008, 15:28
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Are we talking about a literal personality for the Earth, or for the universe? Lewis actually explicitly notes in The Discarded Image that the Earth was not classically given a gu…
17 Jul 2008, 12:03
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Yes, it is, and yes, there is some trouble squaring it with John 14:6, which causes trouble with conservative Protestant groups. The Catechism discusses this in less than explicit …
16 Jul 2008, 18:37
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Oh, no, I don't think he's in the Mel Gibson camp. Some of his non-mainstream views seem to be, if anything, on the other side--he apparently gives great salvific power to faith i…
16 Jul 2008, 18:06
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I read Severian's consumption of Thecla, at least, as another instance of Wolfe's "evil masquerading as good turns out to be good via divine action." To Vodalus and his cronies, th…
16 Jul 2008, 17:53
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Catholic Christianity neither currently nor historically requires pacifism. Wolfe is not a heretic. He plays with extra-orthodox but not unorthodox ideas, if that's clear--he be…
16 Jul 2008, 17:48
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I think Wolfe's point is deeper than merely "evil actions can produce good results." There's a significant difference from the fate of, for example, Gollum in the Lord of the Ring…
14 Jul 2008, 20:16
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I don't think it means anything like the idea that everything is part of God's plan and thus morality is meaningless. I think it means something much more mundane--that, as Severi…
14 Jul 2008, 17:58
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Perhaps we're looking for the evidence in the wrong place. The strongest evidence that the Hierogrammates are doing the will of the Increate is that the Outsider tells Silk that "…
14 Jul 2008, 17:28
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