That Hideous Strength, the Most Accurate Dystopia of Them All? : The Theology Pugcast Episode 266

[@brucekyer5530]

I love the irony...being encouraged to read books from watching a video. I don't miss an episode of you guys. It starts my Monday's off on a good note.

[@rebeccablunk239]

This is my favorite book! So excited to hear you all discuss it!

[@macsprinter]

Great discussion. I didn't "get" the book first time around. Years later I got the unabridged version and devoured it. I've since read it several times.

[@lizzygonzalez9128]

I teach a homeschool co-op modern lit class (11-12 grade) this year. This episode gave me the gumption to tackle these dystopian works with them. Thanks for summing it up so well! 🤓

[@ovlovninety2320]

The movie "Brazil". Very dystopic. Very dark. Monty Python's Terry Gilliam.

[@joshdavidian]

Good insight, thanks

[@featurebroadcast297]

Excellent conversation.

[@clintd3476]

Brad Birzer has a full course on dystopian literature available on Tom Woods Liberty Classroom. Worth the time of the lectures.

[@bobtaylor170]

Then there is always Walker Percy's funniest book, "Love in the Ruins." It's funny and it's dystopic and only Walker Percy could have written it.

[@MarkMackenzievortism]

1984 was telling you what was being done to you. Not what could happen, what is happening.

[@dennisduran3841]

Glen Sunshine You need stronger shelves.

[@delhatton]

"That Hideous Strength" is easy to characterize. Christian apocryphal fiction. Maybe patient zero of the modern version of the genre.

[@marymack1]

I tried reading That Hideous Strength...didn't take for me (while I did like the Narnia books I read, I haven't liked much of C.S. Lewis' other works, perhaps it's the style and/or voice). Never say never, so I may try it again later. I still have a copy of 1984 that I have yet to read, and I did enjoy Animal Farm, so I'm hopeful.

[@spartakos3178]

The world is trending towards a reduction in attention span such that it will be increasingly hard for new generations to think deeply and thoroughly which is key to being able to recieve or study teaching from Scripture. There is a reason God gave his revelation through the written word of eyewitnesses.

[@jsorrien8642]

At the 35:50 mark, "the rise of antisemitism" could the cause be their behavior and treatment of their fellow man?

[@xxxxxxxxxxxx254]

"Satan hates the jews because that's where jesus came from" Are you sure that Satan hates *modern day jews* who have been evangelized and still reject our savior?

[@juliangodsend9418]

LET GOD BE TRUE BUT EVERY MAN A LIAR

[@Warm_and_loveable]

"Satan hates the jews because that's where Jesus came from" ??? Can someone unpack this for me? Or was he just tryimg to be funny.

[@adamh5153]

Jesus was a Jew.

[@juliangodsend9418]

PSUEDO SCIENCE

[@juliangodsend9418]

1 TIMOTHY 6:20-21

[@juliangodsend9418]

ROMANS 1:18-23

[@MereEdgeMinistry]

Please gentlemen, get back to the Bible, hold up Christ, the answer is the gospel. Don't be ashamed of it, God commands men to repent, trust in Him to save you from His wrath.

[@stephenrustyak7447]

I really wish you guys were Eastern Orthodox- please consider dropping into an Orthodox Church - it is a shame that intelligent godly men like yourselves are not Orthodox- nevertheless may God be with you all---

[@StudentDad-mc3pu]

A great book, apart from the anti-gay subtext which I find distasteful and "of it's time".

[@vibeauxssxuaebiv3489]

The Bible is absolutely clear that homosexuality is an evil and a perversion of God's Gospel.

[@macsprinter]

Romans 1

[@StudentDad-mc3pu]

@@macsprinter my point exactly

[@stellifriends7785]

what do you mean by the 'anti-gay' subtext?

[@jamesedwards.1069]

You say that like it's a bad thing.