What book of the Bible did C. S. Lewis read more than any other?
QUIZ: October 9, 2013
Name the source of this quote: “He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”
QUOTE: October 9, 2013
“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.”
Nice People or New Men
(Chapter 10 of Beyond Personality; published 10/9/1944)
FACT: October 9, 2013
Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on this date in 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC.
C.S. Lewis and the Arts (Dr. Rod Miller)
How should Christians engages “the Arts” and what do we mean by “the Arts”? That’s what an upcoming book that is a collection of essays attempts to answer. William O’Flaherty spoke with Dr. Rod Miller, the editor
QUOTE: October 8, 2013
“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)
QUIZ: October 8, 2013
Lewis’s mother got a degree from what university?
FACT: October 8, 2013
A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published today (10/8) in 1942. Lewis adapted it from the 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures.
QUOTE: October 7, 2013
“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 Sixteenth Century
(Written 10/7/1953)
FACT: October 7, 2013
Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on this day in 1953.