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

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

http://www.jesusisbuddha.com/PDF/4th.gospel's.tempt.pdf

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.

"The Christian Buddhism Of John: New Insights Into The Fourth Gospel" 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Christian-Buddhism-St-John/dp/B0006CPRI2

Excerpt: "God As Woman, Woman As God" http://books.google.com/books?id=vNM0dh5piA8C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=j.+edgar+bruns,+woman+as+god+god+as+woman&source=bl&ots=R3T7gRFxY9&sig=Fz0VpAeCkwRR-bLJhnmrvZYAlWQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GoSEVIeTFq3bsATYt4KYCw&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=j.%20edgar%20bruns%2C%20woman%20as%20god%20god%20as%20woman&f=false

Here are some links "Interstellar" brought to mind.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ: "Research As Adoration"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/scientific-research-as-adoration-pierre.html

"Aquinas, St. Symeon The New Theologian And Their Spiritual Kin"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/aquinas-stsymeon-new-theologian-and.html

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

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-on-theosis.html

And here are IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes' reviews of "Interstellar."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/interstellar_2014/

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_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...

C