Oh, we certainly can. I've also had the luck to connect with lots of people doing similar stuff, as my reading page should show!
It got recommended to me as a good Christian kind of work, so I'm interested to see what that person, all those years ago, saw in it that made them recommend it to me that way.
I'm wondering, too... The explicit portrayals of Christianity we get are not exactly flattering (in one case, Covenant walks into a revival and gets threatened because he doesn't want to believe, and in another, we see a Christian group that's been taken over by Lord Foul), and I don't know about the implicit ones...
That said, I did find an article by someone who finds it is a Calvinist fantasy, because it "stresses the inquity of the sinner" (Covenant), and "emphasises the utter hopelessness of a godless world and the vanity of human pride". Maybe that could be a good lead? (I do have to note that the article writer has only read the first book when writing this, and that shows, since Covenant does end up getting better and the Land does end up saved. I wonder if the person who recommended it had read the whole initial trilogy?)
The prophetic things that have been said so far very much seem to day "well, either he's going to make it all the best or he's going to destroy it all. Have fun figuring out which!"
If Donaldson wanted to have Covenant saving the Land as a genuine point for us to wonder over, instead of a surprise, he'd need to be a lot more engaged with the fate of the Land. In-universe, it indeed seems a bit useless as a prophecy, especially since he won't unambiguously "save the Land", and as we'll find out, that's not even possible. (I think a further edit might have helped with that.)
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Oh, we certainly can. I've also had the luck to connect with lots of people doing similar stuff, as my reading page should show!
It got recommended to me as a good Christian kind of work, so I'm interested to see what that person, all those years ago, saw in it that made them recommend it to me that way.
I'm wondering, too... The explicit portrayals of Christianity we get are not exactly flattering (in one case, Covenant walks into a revival and gets threatened because he doesn't want to believe, and in another, we see a Christian group that's been taken over by Lord Foul), and I don't know about the implicit ones...
That said, I did find an article by someone who finds it is a Calvinist fantasy, because it "stresses the inquity of the sinner" (Covenant), and "emphasises the utter hopelessness of a godless world and the vanity of human pride". Maybe that could be a good lead? (I do have to note that the article writer has only read the first book when writing this, and that shows, since Covenant does end up getting better and the Land does end up saved. I wonder if the person who recommended it had read the whole initial trilogy?)
The prophetic things that have been said so far very much seem to day "well, either he's going to make it all the best or he's going to destroy it all. Have fun figuring out which!"
If Donaldson wanted to have Covenant saving the Land as a genuine point for us to wonder over, instead of a surprise, he'd need to be a lot more engaged with the fate of the Land. In-universe, it indeed seems a bit useless as a prophecy, especially since he won't unambiguously "save the Land", and as we'll find out, that's not even possible. (I think a further edit might have helped with that.)