What is truth? This, of course, is an ancient question. Pilate’s response to Jesus doesn’t present us with an isolated instance of a doubtful mind, but rather it unearths the perennial condition of Man’s mind. We are creatures capable of introducing doubt into any system of thought. As a result, our late-modern culture may be accurately described as a culture that has embraced the idea that because everything can be doubted, nothing can be known. This characterization of our culture began to … [Read more...]
About Juan Alcala
Juan Alcala graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in English and journalism. He currently manages a coffeehouse in Gainesville, Florida while he pursues graduate work in medieval literature, narrative theory, and theology. He writes fantasy fiction on his spare time
The Language of Narrative and the Recovery of Metanarrative: Part One
March 18, 2014 by 1 Comment
In the closing chapter of C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, (the story of Dr. Ransom’s adventure in Mars) the narrator explains that it was Dr. Ransom's idea, instead of publicizing this adventure in terms of fact, to relate it in the form of fiction: "It was Dr. Ransom who first saw that our only chance was to publish in the form of fiction what would certainly not be listened to as fact."The narrator goes on to quote Dr. Ransom: "...what we need for the moment is not so much a body of … [Read more...]
