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Jun. 2nd, 2010 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafOff out for the ... well, for the afternoon and evening, rather than the day, by this stage. Taking notebook, because I keep being attacked by plot bunnies and forgetting them by the time I reach a computer/ paper.
Am still trying to think of suitable bits of novels which could be discussed in a parish reflection group - that is, passages that touch on questions of faith or theology in a creative way. Virtually everything I have thought of is from "geeky" source material (the only exception being Ashworth's discussion about creation and the problem of evil in Absolute Truths, and that's a very tenuous claim to the mainstream*). I can't decide whether this is because SF/ F is just plain better at dealing with big metaphysical questions, or whether it reveals that I don't read enough litfic. Probably both.
But much as I'd like to discuss reading Paladin of Souls from a Christian perspective, I think I'd have to choose my audience pretty carefully (i.e. do it on LJ/DW?); Harry Dresden meeting an archangel is probably pushing it as far as it will go.
Suggestions gratefully received.
* Or possibly some Sayers, but that's still genre fic, really.
Am still trying to think of suitable bits of novels which could be discussed in a parish reflection group - that is, passages that touch on questions of faith or theology in a creative way. Virtually everything I have thought of is from "geeky" source material (the only exception being Ashworth's discussion about creation and the problem of evil in Absolute Truths, and that's a very tenuous claim to the mainstream*). I can't decide whether this is because SF/ F is just plain better at dealing with big metaphysical questions, or whether it reveals that I don't read enough litfic. Probably both.
But much as I'd like to discuss reading Paladin of Souls from a Christian perspective, I think I'd have to choose my audience pretty carefully (i.e. do it on LJ/DW?); Harry Dresden meeting an archangel is probably pushing it as far as it will go.
Suggestions gratefully received.
* Or possibly some Sayers, but that's still genre fic, really.