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Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, The Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God
Published in Englewood Review of Books, March 2022
C.S.
Lewis’s Till We Have Faces begins as a lament to the gods, or, more accurately, a rage against the gods. Orual, the protagonist of the novel, tells the story of Psyche, her beloved sister who was offered to the gods as a sacrifice.
In her despair, Orual searches for Psyche and is dismayed to discover her living in a palace with a god-husband whom she loves.
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Orual manipulates Psyche into betraying her husband, an act that sends Psyche into exile. Not once does Orual reckon her love impure until, after many words but little honesty, she faces the gods and hears her complaint for what it is: possessiveness of Psyche, not love for her.
“Till that word can be dug out of us, why should [the gods] hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
Facing the gods is necessary for Orual’s red