tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27139233.post914027906057472791..comments2023-12-22T19:01:28.512-08:00Comments on Holy Nativity Orthodox Church: Adam Bede (Remember Him?)Fr. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981965403145920704noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27139233.post-40515401969737993302009-11-11T00:09:49.755-08:002009-11-11T00:09:49.755-08:00Most of my cynical grrr-ness about missions, you&#...Most of my cynical grrr-ness about missions, you've already been exposed to in conversation, but I wanted to make a different comment ...<br /><br />I think George Eliot is endlessly fascinating because she had already given up her Christian faith entirely, more than a decade before she wrote her first novel - and yet, so many of her stories show Christians like Dinah in, if not perfect, at least sympathetic lights.<br /><br />It seems that early in her career, she worked on translations of two German treatises, both criticisms of Christianity. (The introduction to my copy of Adam Bede is where I'm getting all this from ... and there's a particularly good intro to my copy of Daniel Deronda if you didn't see it before when Bonnie was borrowing it ... ) This apparently disillusioned her out of her "ascetic evangelical" phase ... I feel like I "grok" this about her. I wish she could have found her way back to something more substantial than an observer's admiration for what faith could produce in a human.Mooshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737446370723825187noreply@blogger.com