{"id":2741,"date":"2013-01-08T00:24:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T00:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2013-01-08T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:59:07","slug":"les-miserables-and-the-law-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Les Mis\u00e9rables\u2019 and the Law of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DGBlog\/~3\/qeYuKalvUVQ\/les-miserables-and-the-law-of-god\" target =\"_new\">Finally<\/a>, just when i thought no theologians noticed this, especially after reading Tim Keller's short review in the Redeemer newsletter, i came across this. I couldn't have said it better.<\/p>\n<p> Joe Rigney calls Victor's Les Miserables, a subtle seduction in Hugo's story for the divination of \"the people\":<\/p>\n<p><em> The Subtle Seduction in Hugo\u2019s Story<\/p>\n<p>And lest this condemnation of the ruling class in Les Mis be taken as an endorsement of the \u201cangry men\u201d and their revolutionary ideology, let me just say that I regard the glorification of revolutionary violence as one of the central and most subtle seductions of Hugo\u2019s story, and one that discerning Christians will recognize and reject.<\/p>\n<p>Les Mis romanticizes the Revolution and the utopian radicalism it rode in on: the divinization of \u201cthe People,\u201d the glorification of \u201cthe barricade,\u201d the obsession with overthrowing the past and recreating the world. The \u201cangry men\u201d make it to \u201cheaven\u201d by their blood and martyrdom for the Cause and \u201cthe People,\u201d but the real \u201cangry men\u201d (or rather, their predecessors in 1789) gave us the guillotine and the Temple of Reason in their quest for \u201cLiberty, Equality, and Fraternity.\u201d The ancien regime was awful, but the revolutionaries were arguably worse.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, just when i thought no theologians noticed this, especially after reading Tim Keller's short review in the Redeemer newsletter, i came across this. I couldn't have said it better. Joe Rigney calls Victor's Les Miserables, a subtle seduction in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2741\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}