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God Bless Philip Pullman Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM Golden Compass author Philip Pullman has announced his next novel, and it looks like he's continuing with one of his big themes. Its title is The Good Man Jesus...

In this article: Philip Pullman, Apostle Paul, Superman, Bizarro Superman, His Dark Materials, and The Last Temptation of Christ

...released in 2007. It also caused an uproar among Pullman's fans, who were furious at how the books' anti-religiosity (Pullman is a staunch atheist; in His Dark Materials, God is killed) was completely absent from the film. The brutal...

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He enraged America's religious right with his portrayal of God as a senile old man in the His Dark Materials trilogy, and now Philip Pullman is set to court more Christian controversy - this time with a novel about "the Scoundrel Christ".

In this article: Philip Pullman, Jesus, Apostle Paul, His Dark Materials, Michel Faber, Christianity, Heracles, Prometheus, and Penelope

Children's author Philip Pullman: Jesus was NOT the Son of God Children's author Philip Pullman says Jesus wasn't the Son of God Last updated at 9:30 AM on 07th September 2009 Controversial author Philip Pullman has provoked anger...

In this article: Philip Pullman, Jesus, St Paul, His Dark Materials, and Vatican

...being, Jesus certainly included. I believe this is a pity. " Pullman told The Times newspaper that the idea of Jesus being the son of God came from Paul's "fervid imagination". He went on: "The story I tell comes out of the tension within...

In this article: Philip Pullman, Jesus, St Paul, Christianity, His Dark Materials, Northern Lights, The Golden Compass, Easter, and Canongate Books

...like the Catholic Church as his villain. And it isn't just the God-fearin' folk he finds frightening he duly recognizes the atheistic USSR as one of the most cruel and effective theocracies in history. In an essay in the Guardian, he explains...

In this article: Lord of the Rings trilogy, Philip Pullman, Magisterium, Catholic Church, Christianity, Catholic League, Chris Weitz, and National Review

...whose trilogy, these groups claim, is about the death of God. (Pullman calls his God-like figure the Authority, and some book reviewers interpret him as the first of the angels.) It's unlikely that the early criticism will have much effect...

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...parents with their fear of fictional talking polar bears.'' Pullman does kill off an ineffectual God in the final book, and did once say that he's undermining Christian belief. Yet that infamous quote read in context is merely part of a...

In this article: Philip Pullman, Polar bear, The Golden Compass, Literature, E-mails, Carnegie Medal, Catholic League, and American Library Association

It's still alive." Although he stressed he disagreed with Pullman's atheistic view, he commended his "search for some way of talking about human value, human depth and three-dimensionality, that doesn't depend on God." Merely to ask the...

In this article: Philip Pullman, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, Roman Catholic Church, Christianity, Catholic League, His Dark Materials, Northern Lights, and AN Wilson