Faith Or Agnosticism In SF Authors, Including Poul Anderson

Ketlan is back in Lancaster Infirmary again and visitors had to clear out of the ward for a while so I had an interesting hour exploring the interconnected buildings looking for the Chapel which was closed. However, a long walk along an underground corridor in a place of life and death is an opportunity to contemplate spirituality.

In imagination, although not in shared belief, I accompany CS Lewis through:

the Old Testament (YHWH);
the New Testament (Jesus);
the Ransom Trilogy (Maleldil);
the Narnia Chronicles (Aslan);
The Great Divorce, where I found parallels with SM Stirling's account of a hereafter. See here.

In imagination and shared disbelief, I accompany two American sf authors in their agnostic responses to theological questions:

James Blish in After Such Knowledge;
Poul Anderson in "The Problem of Pain" and The Game Of Empire.

Other authors are relevant, of course:

Lewis replies to Wells and Stapledon;
Blish and Anderson follow Wells, Stapledon and Heinlein.

In Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, the Books of Stormgate are like an Avalonian scripture, recounting the history of a people and their exodus to a new world.