Wolfe Heretic?

Adam Thornton · 16 Jul 2008, 17:56 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:56:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe Heretic?
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On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:48 PM, John Watkins wrote:
> Wolfe is not a heretic.  He plays with extra-orthodox but not  
> unorthodox ideas, if that's clear--he believes or seems to believe  
> many things that are permissible but not required for a Catholic,  
> but I've yet to encounter an overt endorsement of some doctrine that  
> Catholics are forbidden to hold in his works.

So--and I mean this less snarkily than it sounds--he's sort of in the  
Mel Gibson camp then?

Come to think of it, most of the dualisms I can think of are probably  
anti-Manichean, as they demonstrate that the demiurgic creation is a  
fatally flawed creation which ends up evilly even with good initial  
intent.  (_Memorare_, here, or indeed the _WK_ cosmology)

Adam
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