The following is part of a series reflecting on the life of C.S. Lewis. This is accomplished by summarizing various events or happenings during his lifetime for the noted period and may include significant events related to him after his death. Highlights for the first third of November (1st – 10th) include: A two-part broadcast …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 1st
FACT OF THE DAY: “Faith” is the chapter title of what was the 7th BBC talk from Lewis’s third series that became the book Christian Behaviour (where it is chapter 11). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Faith, in the sense in which I am using the word, is the art of holding on …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 31st
FACT OF THE DAY: The 27th Screwtape Letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Historical Point of View.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Anything, even a sin, which has the total effect of moving him close up to the Enemy [i.e. God], makes against us in the …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 30th
FACT OF THE DAY: “A Note on Jane Austen” was published in the October, 1954 issue of Essays in Criticism. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible.” A Note on Jane Austen (Published in the …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 29th
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (10/29) in 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became Lewis’s first academic title. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 28th
FACT OF THE DAY: “Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was published in the October, 1946 issue of Resistance. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; …
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C.S. Lewis vs the New Atheists # 7 – Jesus in the Dock
This is the next to last in a series of eight shows on C.S. Lewis vs the New Atheists. In addition to having the author of the book (Peter S. Williams) with me (William O’Flaherty), I am also joined again by Peter Byrom to help co-host. Today’s discussion is about the forth chapter of the book. If you …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 27th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Narrative Poems was released today (10/27) in 1969. It included the entire contents of Dymer, Lewis’s second poetry book.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven – a senile benevolence who as they say ‘liked to see young people enjoying themselves.'”
The Problem of Pain
(Published 10/18/1940)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
This order for the Narnian books is surely one of the most common in the world: 1) HHB, 2) LB, 3) LWW, 4) MN, 5) PC, 6) SC and 7)VDT. Despite being so common perhaps no one has ever actually read them in this order. Can you guess why that order is so common? (submitted by Stanley Anderson)
TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:It is the order one would find them on the shelves of any public library – ie, in alphabetical order by title (with any preceding “The” moved to the end of the title, of course)
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 26th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on this date (10/26) in 1964.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
Forgiveness
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/18/1942; Chapter Seven from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to _____ _____ _____ .”
TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION: On October 22, 1939 Lewis preached “None Other Gods: Culture in War Time.” This first sermon was later published as “Learning in War-Time” and is found in The Weight of Glory.
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 25th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series was give live today (10/25) in 1942. It is known as “The Great Sin.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison…[pride] is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Earlier this month Lewis preached his first sermon…what was the title and when was it?
TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:In October, 1935 The Pilgrim’s Regress (second edition) was published.