C.S. Lewis‘ ‘other’ fantasy series – his sci-fi Cosmic Trilogy – are today among his less well-known works. The trilogy was published before he penned his Narnia books, but it would be an over-simplification to say the Narnia series fleshes out further ideas found in the Cosmic Trilogy. In fact, because the Cosmic Trilogy is adult fiction, it seems (to the… Read More C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength: A Review
This certainly is an extraordinary book. Honestly, I don’t know how far it’s right or wrong, and still have much musing and digesting to do; I just know that it’s very different to any book I have ever read before on Christian marriage and theology of sex and gender. Evdokimov seems to be critiquing a… Read More The Sacrament of Love: A Preliminary Review
Yesterday, I went to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman at the Royal Opera House (London). Tim Albery’s version is a great performance. The staging and scene were not over elaborate, but very effective. All the main soloists were very good, especially Adrianne Pieczonka ’s Senta, and the chorus and orchestra were first-rate. For me, it was “excellent”… Read More Lutheranism and Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman
This book, first published in 1858, is supposed to have inspired the genre of modern fantasy, through its impact on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (who both brought fantasy back into vogue); C.S. Lewis described it as baptising his imagination. Therefore, when I saw it among Amazon Kindle’s free books I immediately bought it! I’ve… Read More George MacDonald’s Phantastes
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