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What happens to Christianity if a traveling spaceman one day leaves his rocket ship, takes a stroll through the celestial parks, and ends up having tea with a green-bearded, triple-bellied inhabitant of outer space? In the Christian Herald, theology-centered Author C. S. (The Screwtape Letters) Lewis weighs the question, points out that it might challenge a basic tenet of Christianity-man's uniqueness. Inveterate Theologian Lewis, a Cambridge professor of literature and a convert (1930) from well-bred skepticism to the Church of England, states the problem thus: "If we find ourselves...
...redemption through him? Suggests Lewis: redemption may be possible through other means than "birth at Bethlehem, the cross on Calvary and the empty tomb . . . To different diseases, or different patients sick with the same disease, the great Physician may have applied different remedies.'' Or else outer-world species might not be fallen, hence not require redemption...
...colleagues that he produced his own "State of the Union" message two days before the President's own (TIME, Jan. 20). Later, he got unanimous subcommittee endorsement for a constructive report that made 17 recommendations for strengthening the U.S. military establishment. Again, when the U.S. Explorer streaked into outer space, it was Senate Leader Johnson who set up a special blue-ribbon Senate committee, with himself as chairman, to decide on the crucial question of whether space should come under civilian or military control...
...rule science fiction is neither; most writers of real talent believe that their place is in the home, not in outer space. An exception is John Wyndham. a British novelist who manages to be in both places at the same time and to apply a sort of documentary style to the description of a world of sinister flapdoodle...
...mass parthenogenesis has raised problems of theological, scientific and political interest. This is nothing to what happens when the village doctor has his busy days and the little strangers prove to be stranger than is customary even in science fiction. The fathers, it is now clear, came from outer space, and left no forwarding address. Nor did they leave any clue as to why the children (60 in all) should have golden eyes and be gifted with the power that all ordinary children want but do not always get-the ability to command the adult world...