"the Slothropite heresy" (Re: Religion

[ng ld]

>
>William Slothrop was a Christian, and is described as such in the text
>("Despite the folklore and the injunctions in his own Bible ... " 555.13).
>His tract, _On Preterition_, where he argued that "what Jesus was for the
>elect, Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite" (555.35), was *perceived* as
>heresy by the "Elect in Boston".


William Slothrop was a Christian.
Now what do we do? We agree that he was a Christian.
Was he a Christian in the sense that Eric has defined
being a Christian and Christianity?
Was he a Christian as Origen was a Christian?
As St. Augustine was a Christian?
As Heracleon was a Christian?
As Teresa was a Christian?
As Tertullian was a Christian?
As Shakespeare was a Christian?
As James Joyce was a Christian?
As Thomas Merton was a Christian?
As Emily Dicekenson was a Christian?

What kind of Christian was W. Slothrop?

We can start with this one. The rest are rhetorical but
were not selected arbitrarily.

>
> > Tyrone thinks, not Pynchon. It's a route back and therefore
> > disqualified. Not only is it a way back (a gnostic path)
> > it is a way that could have been in the begining or at the
> > fork in the road of the past or can be
> > after the destruction of..., that's why it's Tyrone's musing
> > and not TRP's.
>
>Those three rhetorical questions which precede the sentence beginning "It
>seems to Tyrone Slothrop ... " at 556.14 are, at least arguably, posed by
>the textual narrative rather than by Tyrone. That adjectival modifier
>"Slothropite" deliberately distances the phrase in the second question from
>Tyrone's pov. If it was in fact *only* Slothrop asking those three 
>questions
>then I think we might safely assume that the qualifier would be either
>"William's" or "his ancestor's", rather than its actual nomination as "the
>Slothropite heresy". Indeed, Tyrone is in fact another manifestation
>(product ... emblem ... symptom) of the "Slothropite heresy" and, unlike
>Stencil, Tyrone never refers to himself in the third person.
>
>best
>

Very good. That gives me encouragement. All that fancy
foot work to refute my point. My point is simple.
I was speaking to the "route back." And here the text
says, " It seems to Tyrone Slothrop that there might be
a route back..." 556

It seems to Tyrone, not to Tom. All that fancy foot work
and you forgot this one little step.

ng
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