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Brideshead Revisited Revisited
The religious themes it dealt with included one that few writers in modern times have tackled.
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is that the rules Christianity imposes on a believer can be hard: they do not guarantee earthly happiness or the satisfaction of earthly desires (C. S. Lewis said that trying to lead the Christian life by the rules can "be more like the dentist's drill or the front line" than like a bed of roses). But they show one how to get through life and in the long run offer something a great deal better. Brideshead Revisited is a work with a serious theological message, and, beyond all the complex sexual linkages and comedy about teddy bears and so forth it deserves to be treated as such.
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Hal G.P. Colebatch's "Immram," Counterstrike, is being published by Australian publisher Imaginites.
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