“The air was growing brighter and brighter about us; as if something had set it on fire. Each breath I drew let into me new terror, joy, overpowering sweetness. I was pierced through and through with the arrows of it. I was being unmade. I was no one. But that’s little to say; rather, Psyche [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Beholding God or How People Change
Posted in Beauty, C.S. Lewis, Epiphany, Ezekiel, Imagination, Sanctification, Theology and Literature, Till We Have Faces on August 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Love and Beauty in Till We Have Faces
Posted in Beauty, C.S. Lewis, Epiphany, Theology and Literature, Till We Have Faces on August 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Till We Have Faces is C.S. Lewis’s imaginative reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. It is a meditation on the nature of beauty and ugliness and of love and hate, and because gods and goddesses encounter men and women throughout, it is also a novel about the nature of the divine, of revelation [...]
Jonathan Franzen and the Danger of Seeing Through Everything
Posted in Epiphany, Imagination, Theology and Literature on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Since my last post, I’ve still been reflecting on the nature of epiphany in contemporary literature, particularly in the novel Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Despite my reservations about the real possibility of actual epiphanies in novels like Franzen’s, I haven’t read a recent novel that better captured the world as it is right now. Franzen’s [...]
