Beth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Ms. Bujold! I'm so glad you answer questions! My question is about the Chalion series. I really love the way you approached the question of deity. Especially _Paladin of Souls_, which made me tear up, even on the re-read. What informed your attitude toward celestial beings?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I don't have any one source for that. It was more of a lifetime accumulation of reading of all sorts, from C.S. Lewis through The Confessions of St. Augustine to a smattering of mystics from other religions to biographies of saints (Ignatius Loyola was fascinating) to accounts of 19th C. leper colonies. Blenderize that with my biology and science education, or at least pop science education, that gave me a distaste for dualism, and strange things happen.
(Note that the gods of Chalion cannot really be called celestial, as they are equally immanent at all points.)
Ta, L.
I don't have any one source for that. It was more of a lifetime accumulation of reading of all sorts, from C.S. Lewis through The Confessions of St. Augustine to a smattering of mystics from other religions to biographies of saints (Ignatius Loyola was fascinating) to accounts of 19th C. leper colonies. Blenderize that with my biology and science education, or at least pop science education, that gave me a distaste for dualism, and strange things happen.
(Note that the gods of Chalion cannot really be called celestial, as they are equally immanent at all points.)
Ta, L.
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