FACT OF THE DAY: Adam at Night is a poem published in Punch on May 11, 1949 then revised and re-titled as The Adam at Night in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Christianity…is precisely the story of a great Miracle. A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.” Miracles: A …
Month: May 2017
200 Seconds in Hell with C.S. Lewis Episode 7
Here’s more about the secret weapon the devils try to use again us. Last time I introduced the topic by mentioning where it is told about in the fourth letter by Screwtape. In this seventh episode of “200 Seconds” I point out where it is mention is some way in the first and second …
Read the full post →“200 Seconds in Hell with C.S. Lewis Episode 7”
CSL Daily 5/12/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The first edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published on May, 12, 1947 (a second edition came out in 1960). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.” Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published on 5/12/1947)
CSL Daily 5/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” was given on May 11, 1959 to students at Wescott House, Cambridge. (Also known as Fern-Seed and Elephants”) – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to …
CSL Daily 5/10/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On May 9, 1941 the second Screwtape Letter premiered in The Guardian before being available in the famous book. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “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 …
CSL Daily 5/09/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The revised edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published May 9, 1960 containing a revised third chapter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape boasts:) “All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour.” The Screwtape Letters II (Published in The Guardian on …
CSL Daily 5/08/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was interviewed in May 1963 by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Published later that year and it is in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound …
CSL Daily 5/07/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature was first published May 7, 1964. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No doubt all history in the last resort must be held by Christians to be a story with a divine plot.” The Discarded Image (Published in 5/7/1964)
(CCSLQ-35) – Someone I Love
UPDATED (1/29/22) – The Misquotable C.S. Lewis is my book that examines 75 quotations attributed to Lewis that I caution you not to share. Some are falsely attributed to him, others are paraphrases of his words, and a few have context issues. Don’t share a quote attributed to Lewis unless you can confirm he wrote it and …
CSL Daily 5/06/17
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). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian must wage endless war against the clamour of the ego as ego: but he loves and approves selves as such, though …