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-sponsored by the Sheen Center. It is a one-day event; on Saturday, November 23rd. William O’Flaherty spoke with James Como, …
Month: May 2013
Quiz: May 20, 2013
Where is Bism in the land of Narnia?
Quote: May 20, 2013
“[The] scientific method merely shows…that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.” – from Religion without Dogma?
Fact: May 20, 2013
Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” today in 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version is in God in the Dock.
Fact: May 19, 2013
According to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader we don’t know what Eustace’s friends called him because he didn’t have any!
Quote: May 19, 2013
“A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all the anomalies, inconveniences, hopes, and excitements of a house that is being rebuilt.”
Miracles: A Preliminary Study
(Published 5/12/1947)
Quiz: May 19, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“A man is _____ _____ _____ as when striking an attitude of humility!”
Quiz: May 18, 2013
What talk did Lewis give sometime this month that used an illustration that included elephants?
Fact: May 18, 2013
Lewis’s mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton, was born today in 1862. She went by “Flora.”
Quote: May 18, 2013
“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)