Transforming Sermons: It's Hobbes for my money

Monday, January 16, 2006

This one would be worth reading for the title alone, but the content is just as good (it couldn't, after all, be any better).

Bill Gnade said...: I am glad you pointed me toward me towards E.J. Parks' commentary. He is right, plain and simple.

I read recently a line from the introduction to The Life of Christ, by Cardinal Newman. According to the writer, Newman, in his last days, said to Malcolm Muggeridge that "Christendom is dead but Christ still lives" (or something like that). Apparently the comment was instrumental in helping Muggeridge's faith mature.

Park's essay, however, seems to suggest something else: that we are killing even the remnants of Christendom. I don't know, but to turn Aslan into a bauble seems devilish business.

Peace, always, MS.

Gnade; 9:34 PM, January 17, 2006
Milton Stanley said...: For me personally, the sad thing is that Aslan has been my hero since childhood, but the movies, Happy Meal action figures, etc., are bummers. It's hard to put this into words without sounding absurd, but the Aslan in my mind, has always been real, but the thing showing up on the big screen is just a computer-spawned fantasy.

Anyway, Aslan still has a place in my heart, but at this point it really is Hobbes, not the marketing of Narnia, for my money. Peace.; 10:02 PM, January 17, 2006