The Last Great King

"There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the world, it's the beginning of a new life."
-Unknown

So, we've reached the end of Realism, and who better to close us out than John Hopkins, who wasn't just a Christian poet but a revolutionary one at that. He came up with his own form of writing. He had his own system of syllables and rhyming, and managed to fuse pure Christian thought with a Romantic sensibility that is really to be admired. Hopkins' poems are proof you don't have to be an up in outer space Romantic to write a beautiful poem about God. In God's Grandeur, he talks of God very matter of factly, describing his omnipotence in a way that is almost inarguable. In other poems, he speaks of God with immense command and control over his subject matter, and it is refreshing to see that Hopkins does not merely speak of God as some great, interstellar romanitic experience but as real being that he knows and is familiar with.

But isn't it also interesting, in retrospect, how much Hopkins is like King Josiah from 2nd Kings and 2nd Chronicles. For those unfamiliar, Josiah, in an era of idolatry and disobdience to the Lord, reformed Judah and brought the nation back to God and cleared out the city of its foreign corruptors. He cleased Judah and reestablished the lost law of Moses, and was the last righteous king of Judah before it fell to Babylon. Next semester we will be entering a godless era of literature where, as Nietzsche predicted, God is indeed dead, and I wonder if there will ever be a man like Hopkins to find a place for our faith. He just may be the last righteous writer before the Modernist era. Do not fear the darkness, though, for we will find truth, we will not lose our faith, we must leave behind the loved ones of the past and move on, no matter how dark it may seem. Do not be afraid.

Thank you for reading my blogs, feel free to comment, have a merry Christmas and God bless you all! BTW, I commented on Jamie Kilpatrick's post, God and Science.

Is that movie you're watching Expelled? If so, I really love Ben Stein and that movie. If not, I absolutely agree with what you're saying. We claim to want to seek truth, but only if it fits our needs. If we don't like what we see, we want to rationalize it away. We as Christians will use that to attack evolutionists and athiests, and they'll use the same thing against us. It's very confusing indeed.