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If RTD thinks that we're better off without God, does that explain some of the problems with his Lonely God conception of the Doctor?
Last night's sermon, anyway, was on the Second Coming (which I've also more or less got to preach on in two weeks, unless I can think of something theologically interesting and pastorally appropriate to say about the whore of Babylon, which frankly I doubt), and the chaplain talked about two treatments of the theme in fiction, one of which was Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor", and the other was RTD's The Second Coming. I haven't yet seen the latter - I'm going to try to track it down over the weekend - but the way he described the latter, rather strengthened by what I've found on the net, made me wonder if there isn't a connection between RTD's tendency to associate (slightly odd) Christological imagery with the Doctor; the devastation Nu Who's Doctor tends to leave in his wake; and the treatment of religion and God in The Second Coming?
( Spoilers for Nu Who and The Second Coming, I suppose )
In more random news, I note that it's S. Erkenwald of London's day. He was bishop of London in the seventh century and founded the abbey of Chertsey, and is otherwise a blank slate - but isn't it an utterly brilliant name?
... and drat, I really didn't mean to spend most of the morning writing Who meta.
Last night's sermon, anyway, was on the Second Coming (which I've also more or less got to preach on in two weeks, unless I can think of something theologically interesting and pastorally appropriate to say about the whore of Babylon, which frankly I doubt), and the chaplain talked about two treatments of the theme in fiction, one of which was Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor", and the other was RTD's The Second Coming. I haven't yet seen the latter - I'm going to try to track it down over the weekend - but the way he described the latter, rather strengthened by what I've found on the net, made me wonder if there isn't a connection between RTD's tendency to associate (slightly odd) Christological imagery with the Doctor; the devastation Nu Who's Doctor tends to leave in his wake; and the treatment of religion and God in The Second Coming?
( Spoilers for Nu Who and The Second Coming, I suppose )
In more random news, I note that it's S. Erkenwald of London's day. He was bishop of London in the seventh century and founded the abbey of Chertsey, and is otherwise a blank slate - but isn't it an utterly brilliant name?
... and drat, I really didn't mean to spend most of the morning writing Who meta.