Imaginative Tag

As to critics, it appears to be my fate to disappoint my theological friends by not being Christian enough, while I’m too Christian for Harold Bloom’s blessing. So be it. [i] The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with each feet on the earth, who has never been blamed and broken and half-blinded by the scandal of life, is such the existentially godless man. [ii] I. In Place of an Introduction…. After 491 pages, the reader involves the ultimate two words in John Updike’s magisterial Within the Fantastic thing about the Lilies: “the youngsters.” The words are stated without emphasis or misdirection, except from the high ground of grief: “the youngsters,” those holy innocents born into the bad recent days of what appears...