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Christian influences in Fantasy writing
mdodd:
--- Quote from: The Corvidian on June 16, 2012, 03:49:11 AM ---To those who mentioned Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien where friends.
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Both part of The Inklings, a club of sorts, while authors discussed their work.
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: The Corvidian on June 16, 2012, 03:49:11 AM ---To those who mentioned Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien where friends.
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Can't say about anyone else but I knew that. And I may have the two mixed up. One said something along the lines that he didn't write his book as a Christian metaphor or that he didn't put in any Christian symbols but in either case it's still in each series anyway. Tolken or Lewis couldn't help it. Which was I think my original point.
Yeratel:
There isn't any overt Christianity in the Perelandra stories, but C.S. Lewis' basic morality comes through, and the planetary spirits seem angelic in nature.
Jim Butcher is quoting C.S. Lewis through the voice of the Archangel Uriel when he says to Harry, "You are a soul; you have a body."
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: Yeratel on June 17, 2012, 04:02:52 AM ---There isn't any overt Christianity in the Perelandra stories, but C.S. Lewis' basic morality comes through, and the planetary spirits seem angelic in nature.
Jim Butcher is quoting C.S. Lewis through the voice of the Archangel Uriel when he says to Harry, "You are a soul; you have a body."
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But I think there is, well maybe not very overt--you kinda have to read between the lines but I still believe it's there.
As you said the planetary spirits as angels, the whole Adam and Eve on another planet thing, the ending that sounds basically like it was taken from the Second Coming of Christ prophecies. But as I said it's not super overt.
Paynesgrey:
--- Quote from: Yeratel on June 17, 2012, 04:02:52 AM ---There isn't any overt Christianity in the Perelandra stories, but C.S. Lewis' basic morality comes through, and the planetary spirits seem angelic in nature.
Jim Butcher is quoting C.S. Lewis through the voice of the Archangel Uriel when he says to Harry, "You are a soul; you have a body."
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I'd be hesitant on ascribing anything in regards to morality to Jim's quote there. Sounds to me more like the character's using it to explain that in the Dresdenverse, the soul is what makes up your identity, self, etc, while the body is just the earthly walking around suit it drives until going elsewhere.
Which naturally leads us to speculation on exactly how things work with the beings that don't have souls, if sentience isn't the hallmarks of soul ownership in the Dresdenverse, what is? Kind of reminds me of the buffyverse, where when a vamp takes someone, the soul goes away, leaving a demon-run shell that still has that person's memories, but is in no way actually that same person. I'm guessing the Red Court works that way.
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