Over the last couple of months, I’ve read seven C. S. Lewis books and posted extracts or posts about them here. So I thought I’d write an index of those posts for quick reference. From Surprised by Joy: C. S. Lewis’s conversion from atheism Quotes from Surprised by Joy From The Lion, the Witch and […]
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The Last Battle is the last book in the Chronicles of Narnia and tells of the end of Narnia and the afterlife of Narnians. Some have said that it tells us something about the Eschatology of C.S. Lewis. With this in mind, I have written an analysis of the book in an attempt to examine
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From the Business of Heaven: It is a terrible thing that the worst of all the vices can smuggle itself into the very centre of our religious life. But you can see why. The other, and less bad, vices come from the devil working on us through our animal nature. But this does not come
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Referring to Ephesians 5:25-33, Lewis observes the following: The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church. He is to love her as Christ loved the Church—read on -and gave his life for her (Ephesians 5:25). This headship, then, is most
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In Mere Christianity, Lewis warns about over simplifying Christianity (something some people who call themselves Christians sometimes do) and the straw man that Atheists often build from this. Very well then, atheism is too simple. And I will tell you another view that is also too simple. It is the view I call Christianity-and-water, the
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There are some great quotes in the Screwtape letters. I posted a few on Wednesday, but I wanted to share one more. The Screwtape letters are a series of letters written by a senior demon to a junior demon penned by Lewis and released in 1941. The senior demon is mentoring his young apprentice
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While reading C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape letters” in chapter 12, I came across the advice of the demon Screwtape about repentance and sin for the believer: And while he thinks that, we do not have to contend with the explicit repentance of a definite, fully recognised, sin, but only with his vague, though uneasy, feeling that
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C. S. Lewis’ 1938 Sci-Fi novel Out of the Silent Planet chronicles the voyage of three men, two of whom are partnering for their own reasons and a lone philologist on a walking tour who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and won’t be missed if he disappears. Weston and
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