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1. www.reddit.com › r › genewolfeDigging into Wolfe's Catholicism : r/genewolfe - Reddit

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   When Gene Wolfe says the label "Catholic" might not very accurately describe his beliefs , I think this is what he means. He takes the early Old Testament and other scriptures seriously when they discuss Baal and Astarte and others. This site lists over 50 other gods mentioned in the Bible.

2. catholicherald.co.uk › gene-wolfe-a-catholic-fromGene Wolfe: a Catholic from the far future - Catholic Herald

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   May 2, 2019 · Gene Wolfe, who died last week at the age of 87, imagined vast, strange worlds in his fiction – and revealed them in flickering glimpses. His stories were slow revelations, indirect and...

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4. www.reddit.com › r › genewolfeClassical/Catholic/Philosophical influences on Gene Wolfe

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   The notion of the Increate existing in an eternal present is from Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy. The gripping read that is Plutarch's Lives is profoundly influential on how Wolfe understands the ethics of the classical era.

5. www.reddit.com › r › genewolfeIs there any indication Wolfe knew Catholic arcana?

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   Wolfe was a Catholic, and people often use this fact to associate incredibly obscure Catholic "lore" (for lack of a better word) with his work. I am also a Catholic, but I don't know any of that stuff; I know there's like Jesus and Saint Peter and the Holy Spirit and like a bunch of saints and popes and stuff.

6. newrepublic.com › article › 153615Gene Wolfe Was the Proust of Science Fiction

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   Apr 18, 2019 · Wolfe, a celebrated writer of science fiction and fantasy with a deeply Catholic imagination, died on Sunday at age 87. Wolfe was a writer who occupied a unique niche by fusing together three...

7. www.catholicculture.org › commentary › ep-77-geneEp. 77—Gene Wolfe, Catholic Sci-Fi ... - Catholic Culture

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   Jun 12, 2020 · After much popular demand, Thomas pays tribute to legendary Catholic sci-fi writer Gene Wolfe, who passed away last year.

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   • Wolfe, a celebrated writer of science fiction and fantasy with a deeply Catholic imagination, died on Sunday at age 87. Wolfe was a writer who occupied a unique niche by fusing together three seemingly divergent strands: pulp fiction, literary modernism, and Catholic theology.

   Gene Wolfe Was the Proust of Science Fiction - The New Republic

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   What happened to Gene Wolfe?

   • Gene Wolfe, who died last week at the age of 87, imagined vast, strange worlds in his fiction – and revealed them in flickering glimpses. His stories were slow revelations, indirect and incomplete. Readers learned the significance of their accumulating hints per speculum in aenigmate: through a glass, darkly.

   Gene Wolfe: a Catholic from the far future - Catholic Herald

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   What was Wolfe's genius?

   • Part of Wolfe’s genius was his realization that in science fiction, as in Catholicism, the literal and the metaphoric are intertwined. As Samuel Delany once noted, part of the protocol of reading science fiction is being open to taking startling claims literally.

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   How did Gene Wolfe find redemption?

   • Out of the trauma of war, Wolfe found redemption in Catholicism and his voice in futuristic, philosophical novels. Near the end of Gene Wolfe’s 1980 novel The Shadow of the Torturer, the narrator, Severian, an exiled executioner, has what he thinks is a vision of a burning cathedral.

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9. ultan.org.uk › religions-implications-new-sunThe Religious Implications of Gene Wolfe’s The Book Of The ...

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   May 18, 2010 · Wolfe, a Catholic, uses his faith to underpin a monumental work. This article looks at some of the religious implications, and hopes to draw comment from other readers. If Severian is the Conciliator, who then is the Conciliator?