tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post2447452466821688943..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: As Catholic As The Day Is LongJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-18284269584396836372011-06-06T06:18:41.693-07:002011-06-06T06:18:41.693-07:00John, thanks for this review. I think that Mythpri...John, thanks for this review. I think that <i>Mythprint</i> readers would be very interested in this, and so I wonder if you would mind my reprinting it in the bulletin. What do you think?Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-15739559832468360352011-06-05T08:53:44.410-07:002011-06-05T08:53:44.410-07:00The reconstructed Tolkien-Lewis conversation is wo...The reconstructed Tolkien-Lewis conversation is worse than that: not only is Lewis depicted as the passive recipient of Tolkien's lecture, but this Lewis is a stone materialist, not the actual man who loved myth and was desperately seeking a connection between it and primary-world religious belief. It changes the entire tone of Tolkien's argument.<br /><br />I see an extra-Tolkienian theological-political agenda in Pearce's retroactive pushing of the Annunciation as the most important date in the church calendar, but I'll say no more about that.David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-10267678090863900912011-06-04T20:55:17.757-07:002011-06-04T20:55:17.757-07:00Pearce had previously related the One Ring to Orig...Pearce had previously related the One Ring to Original Sin in at least two articles in the <i>J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia</i>, "Christ" and "Redemption"; some comments on these essays can be read <a href="http://users.bestweb.net/~jfgm/EncyclopediaDiary/DiaryPagesAlphabetic/C%20Articles%20Text.htm#Christ_-_Joseph_Pearce" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://users.bestweb.net/~jfgm/EncyclopediaDiary/DiaryPagesAlphabetic/R%20Articles%20Text.htm#Redemption_-_Joseph_Pearce_" rel="nofollow">here</a>, respectively.N.E. Brigandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601573470596905112noreply@blogger.com