Tag: theology

IMDb: The Theory of Everything

13 Jul 2018

Wow. WOW. What an incredible film. And possibly the most sublime acting performance I’ve ever seen (maybe Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man is on a par). Eddie Redmayne deserves every accolade going.

And I’m new-man enough to admit to getting moist eyes at points! Very challenging to see his wife’s fidelity to her Christian faith & her husband yet wrestle with the implications of “until death is do part”. Which in turn prompts some profound theological contemplation. Christ’s teaching about marriage and divorce are quite clear (IMHO!). Indeed, if people were bothered about divorce half as much as they are about same-sex marriage I’d probably be referred to as divorceophobic and reported for hate crimes! Yet seeing stories as moving as this it’s hard not to have your convictions challenged. Was divorce in this situation not the most compassionate – even loving – thing to do? Hmmm. No easy answers.

Anyhow. If you haven’t seen it, do!

The Theory of Everything
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt2980516/

9 May 2014

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Letters from a senior devil (Screwtape) to a junior devil (Wormwood)

9 May 2014

Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don’t waste time trying to make him think that materialism is TRUE! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous – that is the philosophy of the future.

Letters from a senior devil (Screwtape) to a junior devil (Wormwood)

8 May 2014

It sounds as if you supposed that ARGUMENT was the way to keep him out of the Enemy’s clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and if proved they really believed it. They still connected thinking with doing and were prepared to alter their way of life as the result of a chain of reasoning.

Letters from a senior devil (Screwtape) to a junior devil (Wormwood)

8 May 2014

It is funny how mortals always picture us [devils] as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Letters from a senior devil (Screwtape) to a junior devil (Wormwood)

7 May 2014

Consider too what undesirable deaths occur in wartime. Men are killed in place where they knew they might be killed … One of our best weapons, contented worldliness, is rendered useless. In wartime not even a human can believe he is going to live forever.

Letters from a senior devil (Screwtape) to a junior devil (Wormwood)

7 May 2014

How much better for us if ALL humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, … promising life to the dying, encouraging the idea that sickness excuses every indulgence … and even withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!

Letters from a senior devil (Screwtape) to a junior devil (Wormwood)