Month: November 2013

Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 30th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics was released today (11/30) in the US in 1970. It was edited by Walter Hooper.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad. ”

Answers to Questions on Christianity
(Published in God in the Dock; 11/30/1970)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What landmark talk did Lewis give this month that was latter published and a version of it was even heard on the radio?
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Anniversary Reflections #2

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Many are reflecting on the 50th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s death, but today (11/29) is the 115th anniversary of his birth. The follow interview features three people I’ve had as a guest previously sharing their thoughts on several questions I asked them related to aspects of Lewis’s works they’ve enjoyed and how his material has impacted their life. These guests are Peter Williams, Dr. Charlie Starr and Colin Duriez.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 29th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s inaugural lecture for Cambridge University was given on this date (11/29) in 1954. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.”

De Descriptione Temporum
(Inaugural lecture given by Lewis on 11/29/54)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In “The Great Divorce” the residents of what place go on a holiday trip to where?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 28th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (11/28) in 1941 in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:]
“He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXXI
(First published in The Guardian on 11/28/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was the First Joke (cause of the first laughter) after Narnia was created?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 27th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger” was printed in the November 26, 1958 issue of The Christian Century. It’s reprinted in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I freely admit that, believing both, I have stressed the transcendence of God more than His immanence. I thought, and think, that the present situation demands this. I see around me no danger of Deism but much of an immoral, naive and sentimental pantheism. I have often found that it was in fact the chief obstacle to conversion.”

Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger (Published 11/26/58 in The Christian Century)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

(Name the source of this Lewis quote): “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
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Summary of Lewis in Poets’ Corner

William OFlaherty CSL Minute

C.S. Lewis was buried 50 years ago today (11/26/1963). As you are likely aware he was just memorialized this past Friday in Poets’ Corner. The follow are some pieces related to that event and then also a few additional general articles about C.S. Lewis that were posted since my earlier post or ones I wasn’t aware of at the time. Feel free, as before, to post any additional links of other reports not mentioned here.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 26th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s funeral was held on this day (11/26) in 1963 at Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry. Father Ronald Head lead the service.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow-countrymen either in the highly emotional form offered by revivalists or in the unintelligible language of highly cultured clergymen. Most men were reached by neither.”

Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger (Published 11/26/58 in The Christian Century)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis was deployed to France in 1917 (WWI) with what regiment?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 25th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Pictures of Lewis was taken on this day (11/25) in 1950 by John Chillingsworth for Radio Times.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on to its young.”

Preface to B. G. Sandhurst’s How Heathen is Britain? (Collins Publishers, 1946) that was reprinted in God in the Dock under the title of “On the Transmission of Christianity”

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is Coriakin and in which Narnia book is he mentioned?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 24th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published today (11/24) in 1944 in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’
‘He nodded.'”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published in The Guardian on 11/24/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

(Name the source of this Lewis quote): “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 23rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“March for Drum, Trumpet, and Twenty-one Giants” is a Lewis poem first published in Punch in their Nov. 4, 1953 issue.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury.

The Screwtape Letters – XXX
(First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Besides being a book how else was the content of The Abolition of Man also available?
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