“The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXIII – The Historical Jesus
(First published in The Guardian on 10/3/1941)
FACT: October 3, 2013
The 23rd letter from Screwtape was published today in The Guardian. It was the first one with a subtitle, which was “The Historical Jesus”
QUIZ: October 3, 2013
It’s no secret that J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t like the Narnia stories, however, what was a key problem he had with the first published story?
The Silver Chair Announced as Next Narnia Movie
It has been announced that The Silver Chair is planned to be the next Narnia movie. What does this mean? How soon before the next movie will be released?
FACT: October 2, 2013
Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published today in 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement.
QUIZ: October 2, 2013
Name the source of this quote:
“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”
QUOTE: October 2, 2013
“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 profound reflection have gone to make everything in it so ripe, so friendly, and in its own way so true.”
A World for Children
(First published 10/2/1937 in The Times Literary Supplement)
RETRO: October 1st – 10th
Highlights for the opening third of October (1st – 10th) include: Concluding book from his final BBC radio series, an unsigned review of The Hobbit and the release of A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’.
While Lewis did go on to record a radio series on love in the late 1950’s, his final one for the BBC was given in early 1944. The book version of it was published on the 9th of October that same year as Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God.
QUIZ: October 1, 2013
This month in what year did Lewis begin working where?
FACT: October 1, 2013
“Historicism” is a article published in the October, 1950 issue of The Month. It’s reprinted in Christian Reflections.