The God of the Gospel is no bully. He will not force his way in. He knocks patiently at the door. As in the case of Dr. Thomas More, the Lord often makes backdoor entrances, through redemptive defeats rather than pyrrhic victories. “Despair,” the wizard Gandalf declares in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, “is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.” So does Walker Percy summon his present-day readers to a deeply ironic but no less bracing hope, by way of his funny, frighteningly prophetic novel of 1971—to make both life and love in the ruins.(Walker Percy, The American Conservative and me. Perfect together. Ok I do love Walker Percy at least.)
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Love in the Ruins ... or more on Walker Percy ...
A really good review in The American Conservative. The reviewer agrees with my post here that Percy foresaw so much of our world, and talks about Percy's hope and unearned grace:
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