AAJ Podcast: C.S. Lewis: In Memoriam (James Como)
From my All About Jack: A C.S. Lewis Podcast page – The New York C.S. Lewis Society is one of many places holding a special celebration of the author’s life during the fifty’s anniversary of his death. Their event is called C.S. Lewis: In Memoriam and is co-sponsered by the Sheen Center. It is a one-day event; on Saturday, November 23rd. William O’Flaherty spoke with James Como, author of several books about Lewis and the emcee of the event.
Listen to “C.S. Lewis: In Memoriam” (NY Event)
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C.S. Lewis Quotes: Best of May 12th – 18th
Since the beginning of the year (2013), I’ve posted a “quote of the day” at a site I’ve created called EssentialCSLewis.com. This larger site is an outgrowth of this blog and at it I post not only the daily quote, but also a quiz question and fact about C.S. Lewis along with my latest All About Jack podcast and weekly Jack in Retrospect. Below are the quotes from May 12th – 18th; the source for each quote are given below it.
“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.”
Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published 5/12/1947)
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“Christianity…is precisely the story of a great Miracle. A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.”
Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published 5/12/1947)
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“It is probable that Nature is not really in Time and almost certain that God is not. Time is probably (like perspective) the mode of our perception.”
Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published 5/12/1947)
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“Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head but don’t be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud one is safe from the worst form of pride.”
Letter to Genia Goelz (from Volume 3 on 5/15/1952)
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(Screwtape advised Wormword): “Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones.”
The Screwtape Letters – III (first published in The Guardian on 5/16/1941)
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“Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of scepticism about scepticism itself.”
Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (“Fern-seed and Elephants”) (Lecture given on 5/11/1959)
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“The sort of statement that arouses our deepest scepticism is the statement that something in a Gospel cannot be historical because it shows a theology or an ecclesiology too developed for so early a date.”
Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (“Fern-seed and Elephants”) (Lecture given on 5/11/1959)
r14 – Puddleglum
Listen to as PODCAST: LMR14-Puddleglum
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There are so many memorable characters in The Chronicles of Narnia it seems unfair to pick just one, even when you exclude most of the main characters.
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Jack in Retrospect: May 15th – 21st
The following is part of a weekly series reflecting on the life of C.S. Lewis. This is done by summarizing various events or happenings during his lifetime for the noted week and may include significant events related to him after his death.
A couple of landmark events in Lewis’s professional life occurred this week. After holding a temporary position at Oxford teaching philosophy, he was elected a Fellow in English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford on the 20th in 1925. Just over 10 years later, in 1936 on the 21st his first scholarly work was published. Regarding the first step, his fellowship at Oxford, it cannot be understated how excited both Lewis and his father was about this milestone. Albert, his father, who had supported him financially since 1919 recorded these words in his diary: “I went to his (Jack’s) room and burst into tears of joy. I knelt down and thanked God with a full heart.”
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Get a chance to win a copy of the latest book by Colin Duriez, C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship. It’s not officially out in the U.S. until June 1st, but you could win it now! Also, be sure to listen to the interview I did with the author that was posted yesterday.
Please note, as with most of my contests, it is ONLY open to those living in the U.S. (sorry, but it’s the publisher who mails the prize and they set the limits). See complete rules below.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO ENTER is simply leave a comment below about ANY fact about Lewis that you know, or can find. If you need one check out my facts on Twitter. Deadline to enter is Thursday, May 16th at 6 p.m. Eastern.
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First, don’t forget to enter to **WIN** a copy of THIS book by Colin Duriez; C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship. Visit the contest page for details.
From my All About Jack: A C.S. Lewis Podcast page – Colin Duriez is what you might call “an expert to the experts.” He is among the top writers/scholars on not only C.S. Lewis, but also J.R.R. Tolkien. Just releasing now is his book C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship. William O’Flaherty spoke with him about this title and why he chose to portray the life of Lewis through his friends.
Listen to “C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship”
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C.S. Lewis Quotes: Best of from May 5th – 11th
Since the beginning of the year (2013), I’ve posted a “quote of the day” at a site I’ve created called EssentialCSLewis.com. This larger site is an outgrowth of this blog and at it I post not only the daily quote, but also a quiz question and fact about C.S. Lewis along with my latest All About Jack podcast and weekly Jack in Retrospect. Below are the quotes from May 5th – 11th; the source for each quote are given below it.
“Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes”
The Screwtape Letters #1 (first published in The Guardian on 5/2/1941)
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“The Christian must wage endless war against the clamour of the ego as ego: but he loves and approves selves as such, though not their sins.”
Two Ways with the Self (Published in The Guardian on 5/3/1940)
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“No doubt all history in the last resort must be held by Christians to be a story with a divine plot.”
The Discarded Image (Published on 5/7/1964)
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“The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience.”
Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB (from Volume 2 on 5/8/1939)
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(Screwtape boasts:) “All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour.”
The Screwtape Letters – II (first published in The Guardian on 5/9/1941)
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“You don’t see Nature till you believe in the Supernatural: don’t get the full, hot, salty tang of her except by contrast with the pure water from beyond the world. Those who mistake Nature for the All are just those who can never realise her as a particular creature with her own flamed, terrible, beautiful individuality”
Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB (from Volume 2 on 5/10/1945)
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“You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to the thing and can compare it with the representation.”
Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (“Fern-seed and Elephants”) (Lecture given on 5/11/1959)
