FACT OF THE DAY: “Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus” is a satirical piece by Lewis published in the December 4, 1954 issue of Time and Tide. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the work.” …
CSL Daily 12/04/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Selected Literary Essays, edited by Walter Hooper, was first published on Dec. 4, 1969. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Bible thus considered, for good or ill, as a single book, has been read for almost every purpose more diligently than for literary pleasure.” The Literary Impact of the …
CSL Daily 12/03/17
FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis was published for the first time in the US on Dec. 3, 1969. The UK version came out March 4, 1968. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, …
CSL Daily 12/02/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the 2nd of 3 of the Ballard Mathews lectures on Dec. 2, 1941 on Paradise Lost that later became part of his book A Preface to Paradise Lost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have no objection to the inclusion of Freudian explanations provided they are not allowed to exclude all …
CSL Daily 12/01/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published on Dec. 1, 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 3 of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in …
CSL Daily 11/30/17
FACT OF THE DAY: God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics was released on Nov. 30, 1970 in the US. It was edited by Walter Hooper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it …
CSL Daily 11/29/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 29, 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University on his birthday. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are …
CSL Daily 11/28/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed Nov. 28, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:] “He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation.” The …
CSL Daily 11/27/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger” was printed in the November 26, 1958 issue of The Christian Century. It’s reprinted in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I freely admit that, believing both, I have stressed the transcendence of God more than His immanence. I thought, and think, that the present …
CSL Daily 11/26/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s funeral was held on Nov. 26, 1963 at Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry. Father Ronald Head lead the service. An obituary for the NY Times was published the day before. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow-countrymen either in …