I have finished listening to The Shack. The recording included an author’s explanation of how the book came about as well as a “friendly” interview (I have also just finished listening to an “unfriendly” interview.) Young answered my concerns about the quality of writing: basically self-published.
As stated in an earlier post, I struggle to comment [...]
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The Shack: Style and Semantics
Posted in Blog, Fiction, Language, Novel, Religion, William Young, tagged Blog, Bultman, Fiction, Novel, Religion, Resurrection, Semantics, The Shack, Theology, William Young on August 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Probable Impossibles
Posted in Belief, Fiction, L'engle, Non-fiction, William Young, Writing, tagged Aristotle, Fiction, Madeleine L'Engle, Non-fiction, Religion, The Shack, Theology, Walking on Water, William Young, Writing on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Madeleine L’Engle in Walking on Water quotes Aristotle: “That which is probable and impossible is better than that which is possible and improbable.” Fiction works this way. We buy the boy riding the dragon (an impossibility) because the author has made it a probable occurrence in his novel. However, when a normal character does something [...]
The Fractal Garden
Posted in Fiction, God, Novel, William Young, tagged Chaos, Douglas Adams, Fractal, Garden, Gardening, God, Holy Spirit, Mathematics, Order, Pi, The Shack, William Young on August 9, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Theology aside, the concept of a fractal garden as created by Young’s Holy Spirit character in The Shack fascinates me. I have always loved mathematics. The endless complexities of this world and the amazing order that accompanies these complexities excite my inquisitive mind. Think about pi: a number that never repeats and never ends yet [...]