FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on Oct. 9, 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” Nice People or New Men …
CSL Daily 10/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published Oct. 8, in 1942. Lewis adapted it from his 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.” A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ (Published 10/8/1942) Learn More Details …
CSL Daily 10/07/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on Oct. 7, 1953. – – – 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 …
[PODCAST] Taylor Colloquium Keynote Highlights 2018 – pt. 2 of 3
Here’s another podcast featuring content from the recent 2018 Taylor Colloquium. This time it’s more highlights from the keynote addresses. This one features about twelve minutes each from Joe Christopher and D.S. Martin. Christopher’s topic was “C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman Disagree about a Phoenix.” Martin spoke on “A Poetic Look at C.S. Lewis.” Two more talks …
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CSL Daily 10/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Horrid Red Things” was published on Oct. 6, 1944 in Church of England Newspaper. It was adapted in the book Miracles. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 10/05/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 5, 1954 The Horse and His Boy was released in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK the same year the previous month. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is …
CSL Daily 10/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Morality and Psychoanalysis” is the title of what was originally the third talk Lewis gave on Oct. 4, 1942 from his third BBC series. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 10/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 23rd letter from Screwtape was published on Oct. 3, 1941 in The Guardian. It was the first one with a subtitle, which was “The Historical Jesus.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological …
CSL Daily 10/02/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published on Oct. 2, 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 10/01/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Historicism” is an article published in the October, 1950 issue of The Month. It’s reprinted in Christian Reflections. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Where, except in the present, can the Eternal be met?” Historicism (Published in October, 1950 issue of The Month) Learn More Details about The Misquotable C.S. Lewis