I’m nearly done with the Pendragon series. These books are interesting. The Arthur legend from a Christian viewpoint. The last book, The Grail, is getting a bit weirdo to me, but that’s actually part of the whole series, that The Grail is such an important element of Christianity. I’ll reserve total judgement on this once I have this book read completely.
I must say now though, I’m uncomfortable with the power associated to a cup. That God would actually send healing and peace to a land via a physical cup, giving it metaphysical properties, and that those properties can show up in visions as real, but also that the actual cup is what has these properties. It’s used to heal Arthur once, and before that Myrddin (sorry, that’s Merlin to the non-Lawhead readers).
I love the scope and beauty of the series, and I guess what I’m mostly getting at here is how this is leading to sacramentology of depths not known to actual history of early England, from what I understand, but that as well, this stinks of oddness. There are other seeming miracles in the books, and I take it as a storyform and not exactly meant to parallel our world. It’s most unfortunate that this story is tied to the post-Christ human world – unlike Tolkiens story form. It is highly interesting that it IS set in this world, with Christ as Highest King.
