God Will Be Spared

[poliphilo]

I understand that the killing of God is going to be worked round or fudged or omitted from the film version of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

Also the enemy outfit is going to be referred to not as "The Church" but as "The Magisterium".

I always thought the God stuff was the weakest and least convincing thing in the book. Pullman has an agenda and he bangs the drum for it as shamelessly as C.S. Lewis (whom he despises) does for Christian orthodoxy.

Too much theology, not enough art.

Even so, I'm damn sure that this self-censorship isn't being carried out for aesthetic reasons.

Comments

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

i didn't know they were making a film version. i never finished the series, unfortunately. i read the first book and loved it, and then it took so long for the next one to come out that i had moved on to other things. my parents gave me the third book as a christmas present, but it's just been sitting on my shelf all year. is it worth reading? should i pick it up again? i think i've forgotten everything...

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I don't think though his agenda was quite worked out. He still leaves room for mystery, which is in essance what God is.

Rowen Williams wrote in the Church Times praising the trilogy!