Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[David Alan Beck <dabeck AT iupui.edu>]

Glad to see some life on this all-too-quiet listserv. Anyway, I agree with
Jim. It sounds like Percy; it also sounds like something M. Muggeridge
could have said. Though I could be wrong, it doesn't sound Tolstoyan at
all. For Tolstoy (whom Paul Johnson called "God's older brother"), man is
not in deep, deep trouble as long as Leo is there to provide the Way, the
Truth, and the Light. 

I'll look it up when I get home. Maybe it is in one of the Conversation
books.

David

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 JHForest AT cs.com wrote:

> The Walker Percy List isn't dead after all. That's good news.
> 
> >> "Christianity is so on target because at the heart of it is the
> acknowledgment that man has a problem; that man is in deep, 
> deep trouble." <<
> 
> It sounds far more like Percy than Tolstoy. Tolstoy, busy warring 
> with the Russian Orthodox Church, saw himself as a Christian 
> prophet, but had a pretty low opinion of Christianity as such unless 
> it was willing to be remade along Tolstoyan lines. I doubt he would 
> have enjoyed Walker Percy's company.
> 
> By the way, I have a book just out called "Confession: Doorway to 
> Forgiveness."  One of the chapters has a long quote from Percy's 
> "Thanatos Syndrome." The chapter is web posted at:
> 
> www.incommunion.org/conf.htm .
> 
> Jim Forest
> 
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David Beck

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright 
future for man if he spent less time proving that
he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness
and respecting her seniority."                         
                      - E. B. White