tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009563.post110062910985094297..comments2023-12-22T03:49:21.303-05:00Comments on Reflections of a Happy Old Man: Books in my Life IILarry Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571190213288384302noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009563.post-1102121323241811832004-12-03T19:48:00.000-05:002004-12-03T19:48:00.000-05:00Hmmmm... thanks for the comments I've gotten from ...Hmmmm... thanks for the comments I've gotten from you and thanks for the authors names. I'm appreciating your sharings very much!pure plumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08680325177303664089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009563.post-1100721805527655942004-11-17T15:03:00.000-05:002004-11-17T15:03:00.000-05:00Welcome, Donalgrant.
I feel like I hit the jack...Welcome, Donalgrant.<br /> I feel like I hit the jackpot with this post.<br />We have much more in common than MacDonald and Lewis. One blogger said books are of the mind or of the heart. MacDonald is definitely of the heart. He is certainly one of my mentors, and I'm grateful to Lewis for mentioning him.<br /><br />Re a recovering fundamentalist: all right! I never was a fundamentalist, although I attended the New Orleans Baptist Theo. Seminary. I was always a Methodist and had a liberal minister father. <br /><br />You might say I am a recovering orthodox Christian, as my History of the Church, in process on my website amply illustrates. I'd love to have you help me with that file as a co-author; it's too much for me.<br /><br />As I've been writing it and reading all the books I can find on the N.T. and Jesus, over the past couple of years, I've found myself moving more and more in a liberal-- or modernist direction. <br /><br />Bit by bit the old orthodox truths have fallen away until I'm left only with God's love, as given to us by Lord Jesus (low Christology!).<br /><br />As my Christology became lower, I found Jesus become more real--Friend and Brother, the person I have always had to get along without. Praise God. <br /><br />Someone asked William Blake if he thought Jesus was the son of God. "Yes he was" he said, "and so am I and so are you." That aptly represents my Christology.<br /><br />I have looked (just a little) at your blog, and it is very impressive. I look forward to much creative dialogue with you, and perhaps with others following your glob. I certainly will be one of them. <br /><br />God bless you and yours.Larry Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11571190213288384302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009563.post-1100662274100979062004-11-16T22:31:00.000-05:002004-11-16T22:31:00.000-05:00Hi Larry -- just want to say that I completely agr...Hi Larry -- just want to say that I completely agree with your selection of Lewis and George MacDonald. The Great Divorce was my favorite book for a long, long time -- until I discovered George MacDonald. It's still #2. I love the quote: "This moment contains all moments." But Lewis introduced me to George MacDonald -- I'm re-reading Lilith at the moment, having just finished re-reading the Curdie books. I re-read my favorite book, "At the Back of the North Wind" (for which I named my <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fbackofthenorthwind.blogspot.com">blog devoted to GMD topics</A>) at least once / year.<br /><br />Anyway, it warms my heart to run across another Lewis / George MacDonald fan.donalgranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13596834501188716363noreply@blogger.com