Many think of Mere Christianity just as single book that is great at helping you understand and defend the faith. However, not only was it originally released as three different books and four series of radio talks, but there are many other fascinating behind the scenes details that you can learn from C.S. Lewis & Mere Christianity: The Crisis That Created a Classic. This book by Paul McCusker is just being released.
Month: June 2014
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 23rd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch, today (6/23) in 1948) and was revised and reprinted in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
(Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.”
The Screwtape Letters VIII
(Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which book from The Chronicles of Narnia did Lewis share the galley proofs of to his friends, the Inklings?
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RETROSPECT: June 22nd – 30th
Highlights for the final third of June (22nd – 30th) include: Sharing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with his close friends four months before it was published, being awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity and more talk from Screwtape about the “law of Undulation.”
As you may recall, Lewis met frequently with a group of friends called the Inklings. They gathered at a variety of places, but on the 22nd in 1950 it happened to be at the Eagle and Child. When they came together at this location it was unusual for them to actually read any of their works. Nevertheless, this was a special occasion, as Lewis brought the galley proofs of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 22nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to the Inklings on this day (6/22) in 1950.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/22/1948
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Joy is the serious _____ _____ _____ .
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed.”
The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What essay from The Weight of Glory was published this month that was a first a talk a few months earlier?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 20th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The eighth Screwtape letter was published in The Guardian today (6/20) in 1941. It has the first mention of Slubgob.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
(Screwtape Admits:) “One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth. ”
The Screwtape Letters VIII
(Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
When visiting what friend did Lewis write The Pilgrim’s Regress?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 19th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Membership” was published in the June 1945 issue of Sobornost. Previously it was a talk given in February to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius in Oxford.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how we think of Him is of no importance except in so far as it is related to how He thinks of us.”
The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the name of the cousin who visits Narnia for the first time in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
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C. S. Lewis Symposium (Three Videos)
I’ve previously mentioned several times that Lewis was honored in Poets’ Corner in 2013. One fact that you may not have been aware of was that the day before this occurred there were three meetings that were part of a symposium to help celebrate his legacy. Those events from November 21st were filmed by Lunar Firm and the videos are now released by a group called Christian Evidence with permission from the Westminster Abbey Institute. They are as follows with a link that enables you to watch the video from this post.
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 18th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Daily Readings with C.S. Lewis came out on this day (6/18) in 1992. It was republished as C.S. Lewis: Readings for Meditation and Reflection.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.”
Problem of Pain
(Quoted in Daily Readings with C.S. Lewis published on 6/18/92)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“All that is not eternal is ______ _______ ______ ______ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 17th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard) was published today (6/17) in 1965.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way round— we get afraid because we struggle.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/17/1963
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What landmark event in Lewis’s life began related to his career this month in what year?
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