FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on this day in 1953.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.”
Preface to English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Written 10/7/1953)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
This month in what year did Lewis begin working where?
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In late 2011 I spoke with Dr. Holly Ordway about Not God’s Type (which first came out in 2010). A new edition was just release (2014) that elaborates further on her conversion from atheism and further developments since becoming a Christian. Hers is a fascinating story that will be interesting to all. Learn how the writings of C.S. Lewis prepared her in many ways to come to faith and then grow as a believer.
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Horrid Red Things” was published today in Church of England Newspaper in 1944. It was adapted in the book Miracles.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There is thus a distinction not only between thought and imagination in general, but even between thought and those images which the thinker (falsely) believes to be true.”
Horrid Red Things
(Published in Church of England Newspaper on 10/6/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Two Narnia books were published later this month for the first time ever. When was this, what are their titles?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On this date in 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”Morality and Psychoanalysis
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter four from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Morality and Psychoanalysis” is the title of what was originally the third talk given today in 1942 from Lewis’s third BBC series.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved. One is the act of choosing. The other is the various feelings, impulses and so on which his psychological outfit presents him with, and which are the raw material of his choice.”
Morality and Psychoanalysis
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter four from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What essay did Lewis write with the title “red” in it that was first published this month in 1944?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The 23rd letter from Screwtape was published today in The Guardian in 1941. It was the first one with a subtitle, which was “The Historical Jesus”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXIII – The Historical Jesus
(First published in The Guardian on 10/3/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
In That Hideous Strength were does Merlin’s magic come from and how does it relate to J.R.R. Tolkien?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published today in 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and profound reflection have gone to make everything in it so ripe, so friendly, and in its own way so true.”
A World for Children
(First published 10/2/1937 in The Times Literary Supplement)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
“They smell battle, said ________, pointing at the birds. They know we’re preparing a feed for them.” Which character said this in which Narnia book?
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Highlights for the opening third of October (1st – 10th) include: Concluding book from his final BBC radio series, an unsigned review of The Hobbit and the release of A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’.
While Lewis did go on to record a radio series on love in the late 1950’s, his final one for the BBC was given in early 1944. The book version of it was published on the 9th of October that same year as Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God. It is now more remembered at being the forth book in Mere Christianity where it was given a new subtitle: “Or First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity.” In either edition there were eleven chapters, however, there were only seven talks on the radio, so he added four chapters. They were “Time and Beyond” (chapter 3), “Two Notes” (chapter 6), “Counting the Cost” (chapter 9), and “Nice People or New Men”
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Historicism” is a article published in the October, 1950 issue of The Month. It’s reprinted in Christian Reflections.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Historicism is an illusion and that Historicists are, at the very best, wasting their time. I hope it is already clear that in criticizing Historicists I am not at all criticizing historians.”
Historicism
(Published in October, 1950 issue of The Month)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
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