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Category Archives: Inklings & Company
Christmas
by Charles Williams “Let us go a journey,” Quoth my soul to my mind, “Past the plains of darkness Is a house to find Where for my thirsting I shall have my fill, And from my torment I shall be … Continue reading
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“‘Father,’ ‘Son,’ ‘Holy Spirit,’ ‘Person,’ ‘essence and nature,’ ‘like and unlike’–what has such a pattern of definition to do with a Being that must exist always in its own incomprehensibility?”
Less than fifty years after Origen’s death there were born in Africa two great opponents, Arius and Athanasius. The followers of both claimed Origen as their own doctor. This curious double claim arose from an illumination which has perhaps in … Continue reading
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Taking the Bus to Hell
One by one the lost souls step off the bus to enjoy a Great Divorce holiday in Heaven . . . and one by one they decide to take the bus back to the other place. The choice is theirs. … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Inklings & Company
Tagged C. S. Lewis, damnation, free will, God, Great Divorce, hell, last judgment, universalism
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“The stones the Gnostics offered fitted the comers of many temples; only not of the City of Christendom”
The revolt against the Gnostic influence depended on two things. There was the capacity of individual anti-Gnostic writers, such as Irenaeus of Lyons. There was also—and far more important—the actual belief of the separate Churches. It was on many points … Continue reading
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“Christianity is, always, the redemption of a point”
Christianity is, always, the redemption of a point, of one particular point. “Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.” In this sense there is nothing but now; there is no duration. We have nothing to do … Continue reading
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A Leap in the Dark
by Jonathan Geltner Part II: Luck (and Music) In the fury of the moment I can see the Master’s hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand. Bob Dylan Where wast thou when I laid the foundations … Continue reading
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Tagged Ainulindale, Bilbo Baggins, cosmos, fairie, Gollum, Hobbit, myth, story, Tolkien
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Desiring Dragons
by Jonathan Geltner Part I: Glimpse But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting … Continue reading
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Tagged Bilbo Baggins, fairie, fairy tales, fantasy, God, Jesus Christ, myth, Tolkien
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A Christmas Poem by C. S. Lewis
The Turn of the Tide Breathless was the air over Bethlehem; black and bare The fields; hard as granite were the clods; Hedges stiff with ice; the sedge, in the vice Of the ponds, like little iron rods. The deathly … Continue reading
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