Path: ultra.sonic.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.pbi.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!aslan.demon.co.uk!aslan.demon.co.uk!andrew From: Andrew Rilstone Newsgroups: alt.books.cs-lewis Subject: Re: Chronicles banned? Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:58:43 +0100 Organization: The Small Carrot Shop Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <01bc46e2$4525f540$200295d0@bigone> <5it8in$r7a@shellx.best.com> <335315CA.3150@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> <335677F9.413A@dragontree.com> <5j7uj0$mli@news.acns.nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aslan.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: aslan.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 1.11 <3aYeJUWAsGS1FwPCwFgLAUIQiZ> Lines: 19 Xref: ultra.sonic.net alt.books.cs-lewis:7307 In article <5j7uj0$mli@news.acns.nwu.edu>, "Joshua W. Burton" writes >"...but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day." And this >is alleged to diminish the force of the story somehow, I take it? No. Lewis's point was that the stories of Balder, Osiris and Christ are equally "myths" in the sense that they communicate truths about the world to us. The story of Christ is *also* something which happened in history. The fact that we can date Christ's life fairly accurately, and know the name of the Roman governor who condemned him is what marks it out as history: it differs from other stories in that it happened at a particular place and time, and not "once upon a time" or "in the dream time". -- Andrew Rilstone andrew@aslan.demon.co.uk http://www.aslan.demon.co.uk/ *************************************************************************** "Being nice and well-meaning does not necessarily makes someone right. If it did, Rolf Harris would be Prime Minister." ***************************************************************************