{"id":16278,"date":"2018-11-04T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16278"},"modified":"2018-11-04T22:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T03:00:34","slug":"bigger-on-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2018\/11\/bigger-on-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger on the Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bigger on the Inside<\/h1>\n

So I ran across this Chesterton quote while reading Fr. James Schall\u2019s \u201cThe Satisfied Crocodile\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople Talk much of the quarrel between science and relation; but the deepest difference is that the individual is so much bigger than the average, that the inside of life is much larger than the outside.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Schall essay is referencing the idea that there are no ordinary people as C.S. Lewis contended and of course G.K. Chesterton.<\/p>\n

As a Doctor Who fan, this obviously set me thinking with the whole \u201cbigger on the inside\u201d. So I looked up the source of the quote, which is the \u201cIllustrated London News \u201dThe Idea of Separation of Sense of Separateness Oct 24, 1908″<\/p>\n

Along the way I found another reference to the idea in Chesterton\u2019s \u201cThe Catholic Church and Conversion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the last moment of all, the convert often feels as if he were looking through a leper\u2019s window. He is looking through a little crack or crooked hole that seems to grow smaller as he stares at it; but it is an opening that looks towards the Altar. Only, when he has entered the Church, he finds that the Church is
\nmuch larger inside than it is outside.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And following another rabbit hole I came across this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Anthony Coburn wrote the first ever Doctor Who story, \u201cAn Unearthly Child.\u201d His subsequent relationship with the show was a tad tempestuous but his influence was significant. It was Coburn who insisted on the TARDIS being a police box (and possibly even invented the acronym), and it was Coburn who made Susan the Doctor\u2019s granddaughter. Coburn was also a committed Roman Catholic. He was even a street preacher. His faith shaped the naming of certain characters (Ian Chesterton after the famous Catholic author, G.K. Chesterton), as well as the character of the Doctor himself. In DWM #467, his son Stef writes: \u201cThe character of the Doctor was based on [Anthony\u2019s] cultural hero, (Christian missionary) St. Paul. Like the Doctor, St. Paul was supposedly a learned man. \u2026 Paul is a Roman citizen, in the same way the Doctor is a citizen of some other society.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although for Chesterton I suspect the TARDIS would have to be bigger on the inside for him by necessity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bigger on the Inside So I ran across this Chesterton quote while reading Fr. James Schall\u2019s \u201cThe Satisfied Crocodile\u201d \u201cPeople Talk much of the quarrel between science and relation; but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16281,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16278\/revisions\/16281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}