FACT OF THE DAY:
The fourth talk from the second BBC series was given on this day (2/8) in 1942. It’s now know as “The Perfect Penitent.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.”
The Perfect Penitent
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/8/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What series of lectures did Lewis give this month that became book?
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My Fellow Junior Tempters,
As this semester at the Training College has gotten underway, Slubgob has asked me to close this morning’s demon-chapel. I come to you on a most delicate subject. As you know it was seventy years ago that some fool named C.S. Lewis released a book with my name on it. At the time I was not able to prevent this landmark event and have consistently tried to distant myself from it. However, I am here today to announce that I have been able to not only embrace the affair, but in some ways stand proud because of it!
Sure, there have been some unfortunate things that happen as a result of the book. Because Lewis first had my letters printed over the course of thirty-one weeks in The Guardian he managed to grow enough interest for the first printing of 2,000 copies to sell before it was published. This was followed by it being reprinted eight times
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FACT OF THE DAY:
In 1941 on this day (2/7) “Evil and God” was published in The Spectator. In 1944 “Bulverism” was a talk Lewis gave at the Socratic Club.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If evil has the same kind of reality as good, the same autonomy and completeness, our allegiance to good becomes the arbitrarily chosen loyalty of a partisan.”
Evil and God
(Published in The Spectator on 2/7/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What short story by Lewis was published this month in what publication?
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Would you believe it if I told you that C.S. Lewis, himself, actually had his own website? Technically speaking he does not, however, the publisher of most of his books, HarperColllins, does have a site. Of course, there are general limitations to it being a publisher’s site. The main one is the fact that it does exist solely to sell his books; which in and of itself actually isn’t so bad. As you can see from the picture above there are five main areas to the site (plus the traditional “home” button). For those already familiar with Lewis’s books I recommend going to the “BLOG” link. This area contains a large variety of articles about Lewis and his writings by a variety of Lewis scholars and enthusiasts that are very informative.
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to write of all the Narnia books (almost 5 years, from ’49 to ’54).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
The Shocking Alternative
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who is the only daughter of Kidrash Tarkaan and where is her story told?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Man Born Blind” was published on 2/4/1977 in Church Times. But a different version was later discovered called “Light.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I fancy we are all too ready, once we are converted ourselves, to assume that God will deal with everyone exactly as He does with us. But He is no mass-producer and treats no two quite alike.”
Letter to Mrs. Jessup on 2/5/1954
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is ____ ____ .”
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Lewis is known for various fictional works, especially his stories of Narnia. But I bet you didn’t know he also wrote about “The Shoddy Lands.”
During Lewis’ lifetime only two of his short stories were published. One of them, “The Shoddy Lands” was in a issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It is also reprinted in Of Other Worlds.
FACT OF THE DAY:
On this date (2/4) in 1933 Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves about reading a draft of The Hobbit (not published till ’37).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children’s story which Tolkien has just written.”
Letter to Arthur Greeves on 2/4/1933
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Lewis had a debate in the late 1940’s with whom and what was it about?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published this month in 1956 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.”
The Shocking Alternative
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“I have come home at last! The is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The (often misunderstood) debate between #CSLewis and Anscombe happen on this date (2/2) in 1948.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XIII
(Published in The Guardian on 2/2/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“For it is not so ___ ___ ___ ___ and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is our selves.”
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