On this blog, we quite often link to earlier posts on the same blog. When we do, we frequently find minor errors requiring correction, e.g., a name misspelt etc. In the post linked above, we have quoted from SM Stirling's The Peshawar Lancers but have omitted the page reference. My copy of this novel encompasses 458 pages of text. I might reread them all anyway - not a bad idea - but, meanwhile, does any other reader out there know the page reference for Athelstane King's reflection on the god Krishna?
The Peshawar Lancers and Conquistador are my two favourite SM Stirling novels, each conveying a sense of adventure on a new (to us) parallel Earth. These works are culminating peaks of an alternative history tradition that also includes both HG Wells and Poul Anderson. What's not to like?
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Kaor, Paul!
Offhand I don't recall that bit about Athelstane King. What I do recall was mention of the Anglican Church of India holding a synod to debate whether it should accept belief in Hindu "gods." Which would be disgusting and appalling apostasy--and would outrage devout low and high church Anglicans!
And that kind of apostasy is also something no convinced Catholic can possibly accept--as when the Catholic crown prince of France-Outre-Mer politely bur firmly refused assent to that abomination. And we see similar real world apostasies occurring within Anglicanism today.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
In Abrahamic prophetic traditions, it is necessary to be neither polytheist nor atheist but monotheist and, if monotheism becomes monism, that is regarded as heretical.
In Indian contemplative traditions, it is possible to be polytheist, monotheist, atheist or monist. That is where I belong.
Paul.
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