Latro Thoughts

Lee Berman · 31 Jul 2013, 18:34 · from 2013-July.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:34:41 -0400
Subject: (urth) Latro Thoughts
Message-ID: <BLU175-W20700CA4B99733AC2AA324CF570 at phx.gbl>

>Marc Aramini: I actually fancy that the Latro books are an exploration
> of the pre-Christian zeitgeist leading up to the time of the Pax Roman 
>that becomes something of the ultimate philosophical moment of Christian 
>history - mankind is at last ready for divine revision, and that readiness 
>creates a scenario were immutable God takes on a mutable human nature.  Wolfe's 
>gnostic play is here in full force - it is impossible to ignore the ideological 
>differences between the Creator God and the God who is fully human and fully 
>divine; 

Interesting Marc. The first thoughts which came to my mind when reading your post 
Were about Wolfe's willingness to create species who seem to be on a higher 
spiritual plane than humans (Neigbors and Hiero-types, e.g.).

Might it be in Wolfe's mind that we humans still remain unready for some higher 
divine revelation than that of Christ? And eventually something beyond that?

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