Saturday, November 21, 2020

"Interstellar," Myth, And "The Christian Buddhism Of St. John: New Insights Into The Fourth Gospel"

"The Temptation Of Buddha/Christ And The Fourth Gospel"

Dear C,


Thanks for your email.

I agree.

The mythic transcends the factual.

My best teacher ever -- a philologist-priest named J. Edgar Bruns (at the University of Toronto) -- author of "The Christian Buddhism Of John: New Insights Into The Fourth Gospel" and "God As Woman, Woman As Woman" -- said myth is truer than history.

Notably, Bruns held this view as a scholar with incomparably high regard for history.


Here are some links "Interstellar" brought to mind.
"Aquinas, St. Symeon The New Theologian And Their Spiritual Kin"

"John Ford, John Wayne, Aquinas and Theosis (Christian Divinization)"


I hope the Raleigh IMAX gets a big crowd this last day of presentation.

Pax tecum

Alan


"Here. Learn something."

The Fruit Of The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014, CH wrote:

(Seeing "Interstellar" with you was) Great fun indeed.  Thinking about house and truck not decaying with age and exposure to dust storms, I see it as a stylistic element in Nolan's films that there are iconic or archetypal images that are unchanging despite the passage of time -- the children never age in Inception,  the truck and house in Interstellar.  Or, continuity glitch...


 

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