Wise words part two
Jun. 22nd, 2013 07:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212I pulled this out separately from my discussion of yesterday at the monastery, because it is indeed separate.
But if you have any background knowledge of Star Trek at all, high thee to a used bookstore and search for The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane. It is, hands down, the best theology I've seen come out of a science fiction novel. Plus, it has the best gorgeous alien scientist I've seen in Trek.
Seriously, the end of the book is transfiguration/transcendence in the most brilliant and beautiful language I've seen. I kept getting goosebumps and closing the book because I was savoring the words and visions too much to want to keep reading, because every paragraph I'd read was one less to get to later. McCoy, blazing so brilliantly that Kirk almost couldn't bear to look at him, blazing with compassion brighter than a sun.
But if you have any background knowledge of Star Trek at all, high thee to a used bookstore and search for The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane. It is, hands down, the best theology I've seen come out of a science fiction novel. Plus, it has the best gorgeous alien scientist I've seen in Trek.
Seriously, the end of the book is transfiguration/transcendence in the most brilliant and beautiful language I've seen. I kept getting goosebumps and closing the book because I was savoring the words and visions too much to want to keep reading, because every paragraph I'd read was one less to get to later. McCoy, blazing so brilliantly that Kirk almost couldn't bear to look at him, blazing with compassion brighter than a sun.