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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 6/5/2009 9:32:26 PM
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7over6
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blurbed one of our novels?
As in blurb.com custom book? I am making one right now... what are the chances! wow...
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 7/2/2009 11:38:49 PM
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I enjoyed the Guardians of the Singreale trilogy by Calvin Miller.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 7/3/2009 4:32:36 PM
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I enjoyed the Guardians of the Singreale trilogy by Calvin Miller.
That is a good trilogy.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 7/3/2009 9:02:22 PM
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I think the book Arena by Karen Hancock.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 7/4/2009 8:33:18 AM
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I think the book Arena by Karen Hancock.
Absolutely! In fact I need to read this again soon.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 7/5/2009 1:41:37 PM
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I enjoyed the Guardians of the Singreale trilogy by Calvin Miller.
That is a good trilogy.
Wow. I didn't know anybody else had ever heard of these (I found The Singer in a second-hand store and then ran a search for Calvin Miller on eBay). Who would think that an epic poem based on the Gospels would exist, let alone be such good reading? And then I found that he'd written that fantasy trilogy. I think he mostly wrote some kind of theology books, but I've never read any of those. Guardians of the Singreale, Star Riders of Ren, and War of the Moonrhymes are pretty entertaining and very clear morally, though it took me a while to get past Raccoman Dakktare's boasting....
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 7/13/2009 5:22:03 PM
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Lois McMaster Bujold's MilesVorkosigan series reveals traces of a serious Christian upbringing. Unfortunately, as the years go by, that element declines. Still, you do need to read The Mountains of Mourning -- it's available for free HERE.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 7/19/2009 1:32:43 PM
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I recommend Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. While not a Christian book per se, it is an amazing read that contains some Christian allegorical elements.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 7/20/2009 1:26:44 PM
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Gene Wolfe is, I believe, a Catholic writer, like Michael Flynn. Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun begins when a pagan priest on a generation ship has a revelation of The Outsider.
I just finished his last book, Pirate Freedom, a historical fantasy involving a time-traveling priest who spends time as a pirate.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 7/20/2009 7:22:22 PM
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Wow sounds like his ideas are really out there! I like it!
I found a great little site with some intense short stories:
http://www.leapsoffaithsf.com/
I think the book they sell is a compilation of 10 separate stories, I'm not wuite sure. I read the descriptions and the excerpts from each story and they sounds really awesome and thought inspiring!
They include things such as God proving equations, time travel back to Biblical times, witnessing to aliense, life risking telportation, action/spy evangelists, interspecies marriage, healing saint genes, worm hole travel that requires faith etc. what if these were all merged in to one huge universe wouldn't that be awesome?
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 8/18/2009 2:00:53 AM
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Not a book, but a movie: The Matrix (Original only)
Try getting it from a source that can edit out the profanity, and it's one of the best Christian analogies I have seen.
I read an interview from the creators, and they tried to create a mix of Gnostic Christianity and Buddhism, I guess.
Here's the funny part: the areas where they tried to make it similar to Christianity just failed, but some areas where they weren't even trying worked beautifully.
Just my $.02.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 8/18/2009 7:28:33 PM
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I am very aware of the beautiful allegory and typology in The Matrix but am always turned off when I remember the end where Neo and the systems virus of Mr.Anderson canceled each other out as in good and evil were equal and afterwards both were destroyed, whereas Christ resurrected and good is greater than evil not equal. But that is probably where the gnosticness comes in (sort of yin yang like). I love the portrait it paints of reality and "awakening" where the real battle is, it's so perfect and powerful.
Starwars as well has a **** load of parallels to Christianity but again - there are a few things that are more pagan or maybe gnostic than others. Next trip to the Christian book store check out Star Wars Jesus by Caleb Grines.
I just oredered Leaps of Faith and I'll let you all know how it is when I'm done. http://www.leapsoffaithsf.com/
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 8/19/2009 1:17:01 AM
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This is going back a bit, but my whole view on the CS Lewis/ JRR Toilken allegory thing is that people have different points of view. the author may have written it having one meaning, but the reader find a completely different meaning. its like artwork, each person sees something different.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 8/19/2009 1:02:52 PM
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This is going back a bit, but my whole view on the CS Lewis/ JRR Toilken allegory thing is that people have different points of view. the author may have written it having one meaning, but the reader find a completely different meaning. its like artwork, each person sees something different.
This is true, but it's always helpful to know the author's intentions when possible. Tolkien hated allegory as a literary form and repeatedly said so. LOTR was never intended as anything other than a good story. There is no hidden meaning. Lewis, on the other hand, wrote Narnia with one goal in mind, to tell the story of Christ.
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RE: Any Christian Sci Fi - Allegory books? - 8/19/2009 7:54:23 PM
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I think people don't understand the real meaning or example of an allegory, I'll admit I am a little fuzzy on it. It seems that a true allegory is one in which the characters have names such as "Angry" or "Jealous" such as in Hinds feet on high places or John Bevere's "Afable". Or perhaps a sword named "truth". It is very literal and hard to misinterpret.
Would it be more accurate to say narnia and LOTR are typological? or typologies as well as regular stories?
Can a piece of literature fulfill a role other than the purpose in which it was written while still fulfilling the authors original role?
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