"I distrust folks who have ugly things to say about Karl Barth. I like old Barth. He throws the furniture around." Flannery O'Connor One of the Historian Mark Noll's new book about the reception of C. S. Lewis among the first U.S. American readers historicizes the way Lewis has become a beloved figure especially in American evangelicalism. One way to understand this unique moment is to compare it with the reception of Karl Barth's theology.
Jack London's short story of 1916, "The Red One," looks uncannily like Ancient Astronaut TV programs today. Are space aliens coming to jump start human evolution so that we can evolve from wolves into saints? Jack London's "The Red One" gives hope to transcend the wolf within us.