Comments on: Golden Compass Overview http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2007/12/golden-compass-overview/ Do Christians "hold the truth?" No, the Truth holds us... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:44:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ken McCormick http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2007/12/golden-compass-overview/#comment-86 Ken McCormick Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:15:34 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?p=1111#comment-86 It was Pullman himself who said he believed in panpsychism in an interview - it's on the list at the Parchment and Pen site; let me know if you need help finding it. This belief is not inconsistent with Satanism. Anyway, I'm not trying to speculate as to what he, himself believes, just what the books say, whether it's a sincere belief of the author or not. The HDM trilogy speculate as to the nature of sin. How has panpsychism got anything to do with sin? It wouldn't seem to take in that much ground to me. Please correct me if I'm wron on that. How, for that matter, has atheism got anything to do with sin? It seems to me that if you're going to say something like "sin is the beginning of wisdom," you've got to be operating within some other frame of reference than panpsychism or atheism. What's your take on that? It was Pullman himself who said he believed in panpsychism in an interview – it’s on the list at the Parchment and Pen site; let me know if you need help finding it. This belief is not inconsistent with Satanism. Anyway, I’m not trying to speculate as to what he, himself believes, just what the books say, whether it’s a sincere belief of the author or not.

The HDM trilogy speculate as to the nature of sin. How has panpsychism got anything to do with sin? It wouldn’t seem to take in that much ground to me. Please correct me if I’m wron on that.

How, for that matter, has atheism got anything to do with sin? It seems to me that if you’re going to say something like “sin is the beginning of wisdom,” you’ve got to be operating within some other frame of reference than panpsychism or atheism. What’s your take on that?

]]> By: Tom Gilson http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2007/12/golden-compass-overview/#comment-73 Tom Gilson Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:02:44 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?p=1111#comment-73 Intriguing, Ken. You make some very credible and well-researched points. Someone else (I'm sorry, I can't remember who) said Pullman was preaching Panpsychism, the view that consciousness is the fundamental "stuff" of reality--this from the view that Dust is about consciousness. I'm not sure there's one answer that would fully fit. P.S. My email was in the About page, but this tells me I need to make it more easy to find. I'll do that now. Intriguing, Ken. You make some very credible and well-researched points. Someone else (I’m sorry, I can’t remember who) said Pullman was preaching Panpsychism, the view that consciousness is the fundamental “stuff” of reality–this from the view that Dust is about consciousness. I’m not sure there’s one answer that would fully fit.

P.S. My email was in the About page, but this tells me I need to make it more easy to find. I’ll do that now.

]]> By: Ken McCormick http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2007/12/golden-compass-overview/#comment-69 Ken McCormick Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:52:51 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?p=1111#comment-69 Please forgive me for intruding on this discussion to this extent, but I couldn't find an e-mail address at which to send the below analysis of Pullman's books, and I wanted to offer it for your consideration: A reviewer for Kidsreads.com asked author Philip Pullman about his popular His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels for young adults: “Right, wrong, good, and evil. These four words are the foundation of most fantasy and adventure stories. But the concepts seem to be absent/muddied in the His Dark Materials series. Is this intentional? What do you want the reader to come away with after finishing the trilogy in regard to good guys vs. bad guys?” Pullman’s answer: “The concepts aren't muddied --- they're depicted realistically. What I was trying to do was very much get away from the ‘He's called the Dark Lord so he must be evil’ idea” (http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-pullman-philip.asp). Hello? <a href="http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?page_id=1140" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading This Comment --></a> Please forgive me for intruding on this discussion to this extent, but I couldn’t find an e-mail address at which to send the below analysis of Pullman’s books, and I wanted to offer it for your consideration:

A reviewer for Kidsreads.com asked author Philip Pullman about his popular His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels for young adults:

“Right, wrong, good, and evil. These four words are the foundation of most fantasy and adventure stories. But the concepts seem to be absent/muddied in the His Dark Materials series. Is this intentional? What do you want the reader to come away with after finishing the trilogy in regard to good guys vs. bad guys?”

Pullman’s answer:

“The concepts aren’t muddied — they’re depicted realistically. What I was trying to do was very much get away from the ‘He’s called the Dark Lord so he must be evil’ idea” (http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-pullman-philip.asp).

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]]> By: Thoughts on The Golden Compass « consider Him http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2007/12/golden-compass-overview/#comment-57 Thoughts on The Golden Compass « consider Him Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:09:46 +0000 http://www.thinkingchristian.net/?p=1111#comment-57 [...] LaBar at Sun and Shield has a couple of posts too. Finally, Tom Gilson at Thinking Christian has a collection of his posts on the [...] [...] LaBar at Sun and Shield has a couple of posts too. Finally, Tom Gilson at Thinking Christian has a collection of his posts on the [...]

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