Nothing new under the sun
The issues raised by the Da Vinci Code aren't new... I just stumbled across this 'reflection' of more than 50 years ago....
"I have been reading poems, romances, vision literature, myths and legends all my life. I know what they are like. And I know none of them are like this. There are only two possible views of these gospel texts. Either this is reportage pretty close to the facts, nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century without known predecessors or any succesors suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern novelistic, realistic narrative. The reader who doesn't see this simply hasn't learned how to read."
- CS Lewis
"I have been reading poems, romances, vision literature, myths and legends all my life. I know what they are like. And I know none of them are like this. There are only two possible views of these gospel texts. Either this is reportage pretty close to the facts, nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century without known predecessors or any succesors suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern novelistic, realistic narrative. The reader who doesn't see this simply hasn't learned how to read."
- CS Lewis
posted by Bronwyn at 8:10 am
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home