Thanks for your email.
I agree.
The mythic transcends the factual.
My best teacher ever -- a philologist-priest named J. Edgar Bruns (at the University of Toronto) -- author of "The Christian Buddhism Of John: New Insights Into The Fourth Gospel" and "God As Woman, Woman As Woman" -- said myth is truer than history.
Notably, Bruns held this view as a scholar with incomparably high regard for history.
"The Christian Buddhism Of John: New Insights Into The Fourth Gospel" http://www.amazon.com/The-Christian-Buddhism-St-John/dp/B0006CPRI2
Excerpt: "God As Woman, Woman As God" http://books.google.com/books?id=vNM0dh5piA8C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=j.+edgar+bruns,+woman+as+god+god+as+woman&source=bl&ots=R3T7gRFxY9&sig=Fz0VpAeCkwRR-bLJhnmrvZYAlWQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GoSEVIeTFq3bsATYt4KYCw&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=j.%20edgar%20bruns%2C%20woman%20as%20god%20god%20as%20woman&f=false
Here are some links "Interstellar" brought to mind.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ: "Research As Adoration"
"Aquinas, St. Symeon The New Theologian And Their Spiritual Kin"
"John Ford, John Wayne, Aquinas and Theosis (Christian Divinization)"
And here are IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes' reviews of "Interstellar."
I hope the Raleigh IMAX gets a big crowd this last day of presentation.
Pax tecum
Alan
The fruit of The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014, CH wrote:
(Seeing "Interstellar" with you was) Great fun indeed. Thinking about house and truck not decaying w age and exposure to dust storms, I see it as a stylistic element in Nolan's films that there are iconic or archetypal images that are unchanging despite the passage of time -- the children never age in Inception, the truck and house in Interstellar. Or, continuity glitch...
C
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