tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post2913420137879921170..comments2023-09-25T10:35:26.454-04:00Comments on Inscapes: On Brideshead RevisitedBeth Impsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15560137034653905618noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-83508225587564236182007-06-15T11:40:00.000-04:002007-06-15T11:40:00.000-04:00John -- I shall defiinitely look for the Sword tri...John -- I shall defiinitely look for the Sword trilogy. I am almost afraid to get more Waugh -- where will I find the time to read other things?! :)Beth Impsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15560137034653905618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-59967273675231592122007-06-15T09:09:00.000-04:002007-06-15T09:09:00.000-04:00Try the Sword of Honour trilogy next. That's Waugh...Try the Sword of Honour trilogy next. That's Waugh's other Catholic magnum opus. Again there's an aristocratic Catholic family: the Crouchbacks. This time recusant, rather than converted. And again there's great humour - not least with the thunderbox.<BR/><BR/>Brideshead does stand up to repeated readings - I'm blogging my fifth iteration here... http://brideshead.wordpress.comJohnOShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13793765396114911327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-2691054837423556462007-05-01T11:34:00.000-04:002007-05-01T11:34:00.000-04:00p.s. Kamilla -- welcome -- you post at MC and at C...p.s. Kamilla -- welcome -- you post at MC and at CCC, right? Thanks for visiting!Beth Impsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15560137034653905618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-82218039835931190692007-05-01T11:18:00.000-04:002007-05-01T11:18:00.000-04:00R and Kamilla -- thanks for your responses. I'm p...R and Kamilla -- thanks for your responses. I'm posting some more ideas that you've generated by your thoughtfulness.<BR/><BR/>Dearest Sarah -- I agree with you, more than you can know. Of course, the opposite extreme is equally destructive. The glory of it all lies in this: that He *does* offer, and we *can* grasp, the grace that frees us from the pain of others' inevitable sins and errors; and that He *can* use our suffering to make us wiser, so that we can both comfort and teach others. <BR/><BR/>Does that make it "okay" that sin occurs which brings about pain and struggle? Of course not! But given its inevitability in this fallen world, how good of Him to use it for our good, so that perhaps we can do better than those who failed us . . . not in bitter reaction but in wise growth, because we see that indeed we all sin and err, after all . . . Even when we intend good, we do not always understand how to bring it about.Beth Impsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15560137034653905618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-60193914751127867932007-04-30T14:57:00.000-04:002007-04-30T14:57:00.000-04:00"I have heard many criticisms about placing too mu..."I have heard many criticisms about placing too much emphasis on obedience, and I have seen crippling guilt and fear in people who do so." - and what a long path it has been to discover the grace that transcends the guilt and fear that was rooted so deeply within...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-11932761170865750252007-04-30T14:18:00.000-04:002007-04-30T14:18:00.000-04:00I can see I may have to get Brideshead and read it...I can see I may have to get Brideshead and read it before that collection of Waugh's travel writing. . . .<BR/><BR/>Isn't the difference that the Protestant Evangelical writers you mention are presenting it as simply "already" while the Catholic writers are comfortable with the "already - not yet" tension?<BR/><BR/>Kamilla<BR/>(I found you from your comment elsewhere this morning)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-44249630223452682212007-04-27T23:03:00.000-04:002007-04-27T23:03:00.000-04:00But then: "It is accomplished", no? There is a boo...But then: "It is accomplished", no? There is a book on Karl Barth's theology I still read, though I've had it 25 years. "Jesus is Victor". I want to embrace this "already" and dive into it. And then there is CSL's mentor Williams:<BR/>"This also is Thou: neither is this Thou". C Williams grave in Oxford says, "Under the Mercy".St. Kevin & the Blackbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855128373769706263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-24058270581395716842007-04-26T14:32:00.000-04:002007-04-26T14:32:00.000-04:00Thanks for the laugh ("I sound as though I am mark...Thanks for the laugh ("I sound as though I am marking")! I feel that way at times when I'm just comenting on others' ideas, too -- we do so much grading it's hard to get out of the mode!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the kind words, though. I've been thinking about some of the issues BR brings up for a long time, and this one really hit me when I read the novel. Waugh is defnitely "lighter" than Greene in tone. But they both give me much more hope than novelists who suggest not that "all *will* be well" but that "all is *already* well."Beth Impsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15560137034653905618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850554.post-16676214315499669242007-04-26T13:46:00.000-04:002007-04-26T13:46:00.000-04:00Between papers as well -- so thanks for a refreshi...Between papers as well -- so thanks for a refreshing bit of genuinely coherent commentary. A thoughtful and helpful response to these writers. Waugh makes me laugh more that Greene, but their sense of the human condition is compelling. Your response to this is lucid. (I just realized that I sound as though I am marking! Not! But I must get back to it.)<BR/>-RSt. Kevin & the Blackbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855128373769706263noreply@blogger.com