“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.” Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published 5/12/1947)

The first edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published on this day (5/12) in 1947 (a second edition came out in 1960.

“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)

The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” was given today (5/11) in 1959 to students at Wescott House, Cambridge.

Forgot to mention that yesterday (5/9) in 1941 the second Screwtape Letter was first published in The Guardian.

“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 …

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The revised edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published today (5/9) in 1960 containing a revised third chapter. #CSLewis

(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)

Ann, Martin, Rose and Peter are the children’s names #CSLewis first considered before the final Pevensie children’s names. #Narnia

“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)