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) – – – 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). – …
Month: May 2020
CSL Daily 05/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to the thing and can compare it with the representation.” Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (Talk given on 5/11/1959) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” …
CSL Daily 05/10/20
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 from beyond the world. Those who mistake Nature for the All are just those who can never realise her as a particular creature with …
CSL Daily 05/09/20
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 5/9/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The revised edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published May 9, 1960 containing a revised third chapter. – – – …
CSL Daily 05/08/20
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 like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 5/8/1939 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 05/07/20
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature was first published on May 7, 1964. …
CSL Daily 05/06/20
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 not their sins.” Two Ways with the Self (Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to …
[PODCAST] 2019 Douglas Gresham Interview
Back in 2013, I did my first interview with Douglas Gresham (stepson of C.S. Lewis). What follows is a new conversation I had with him that occurred in early November 2019 at an event hosted by the Presbyterian Heritage Center at their International Symposium on C. S. Lewis. The reason for the delay in my …
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CSL Daily 05/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Screwtape’s observation of humans: “Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.” The Screwtape Letters I (Published in The Guardian on 5/2/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May …
CSL Daily 05/04/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s ‘Rejoice.’ We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962 …