While watching The Dark Knight with my son and wife, I found myself, at one point, saying aloud: “That’s just like A Tale of Two Cities!” Stefan had been reading the novel for school and I had reread it with him. And, as I finished Tim Keller’s The Reason for God, I found him noting that the climactic substitution in A Tale of Two Cities was just like Jesus’ action on our behalf. So maybe The Dark Knight proclaims the Good News as a twenty-first century metaphor, as A Tale of Two Cities did in a nineteenth century idiom.
The Dark Knight: A Tale of Two Stories
December 30th, 2008Christmas as Revelation
December 24th, 2008
The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.
We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
who is and who was,
for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.
Time and Surprise at Christmas
December 14th, 2008
The second installment of Anne Rice’s Christ the Lord, The Road to Cana, climaxes with important discussions of time and surprise, appropriate for consideration at this time of the year.
