Call us too literal or perhaps enchantment biblicists, but my husband and I think "aliens" are actually demons. And what about pixies? In fictional literature they are treated as malevolent entities. Maybe demons as well?
This series has really caught my attention. The one thing that has irked me so far is the preferred terminology being used, over against the testimony and terminology that is is used in Scripture, namely "angels/demons". Unless of course biblical "angels" have nothing at all to do with your category of "fairies". If that is so, it would be good to verbalize that. If not, then why not use or at least add this terminology--so that those of us who think in biblical categories when assessing such matters, can connect the necessary dots, in order to actually be open to "reenchantment" where needed. Hope you get what I am driving at.
In her Screen Time article in the April edition of The Christian Century, Kathryn Reklis (Fordham University Professor of Theology) reviews Robert Eggers's Nosferatu. The title of the article is "The horror of enlightenment." She concludes the article by quoting Willem Dafoe's character, Albin Eberhart von Franz who specializes in "alchemy, mystic philosophy, and the occult."
"We are not so enlightened as we are blinded by the gaseous light of science. I have wrestled with the devil as Jacob wrestled with the angel in Penuel, and I tell you that if we are to tame darkness, we must first face that it exists."
Reklis concludes: "This is a fair summation of Eggers's film - and maybe his approach to filmmaking. We are invited to look past our complacent certainties to other, stranger realities. What we see will likely terrify us."
Made me think of Reviving Old Scratch.
I'm still at "Maybe," but getting closer to "Yes."
Call us too literal or perhaps enchantment biblicists, but my husband and I think "aliens" are actually demons. And what about pixies? In fictional literature they are treated as malevolent entities. Maybe demons as well?
This series has really caught my attention. The one thing that has irked me so far is the preferred terminology being used, over against the testimony and terminology that is is used in Scripture, namely "angels/demons". Unless of course biblical "angels" have nothing at all to do with your category of "fairies". If that is so, it would be good to verbalize that. If not, then why not use or at least add this terminology--so that those of us who think in biblical categories when assessing such matters, can connect the necessary dots, in order to actually be open to "reenchantment" where needed. Hope you get what I am driving at.
In her Screen Time article in the April edition of The Christian Century, Kathryn Reklis (Fordham University Professor of Theology) reviews Robert Eggers's Nosferatu. The title of the article is "The horror of enlightenment." She concludes the article by quoting Willem Dafoe's character, Albin Eberhart von Franz who specializes in "alchemy, mystic philosophy, and the occult."
"We are not so enlightened as we are blinded by the gaseous light of science. I have wrestled with the devil as Jacob wrestled with the angel in Penuel, and I tell you that if we are to tame darkness, we must first face that it exists."
Reklis concludes: "This is a fair summation of Eggers's film - and maybe his approach to filmmaking. We are invited to look past our complacent certainties to other, stranger realities. What we see will likely terrify us."
Made me think of Reviving Old Scratch.
I'm still at "Maybe," but getting closer to "Yes."