Highlights for August 22nd – September 1st include: An unfortunate childhood loss, letters from Screwtape on gluttony and love, and the radio broadcast of the last chapter of what’s now book one of Mere Christianity.
As mentioned during a previous column last month, Lewis lost his wife to cancer. The second most significant loss for him was during his childhood, when his mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton (Flora) Lewis died
Which Narnia book is the following passage from:
“…No dog I ever knew, least of all a talking dog of Narnia, likes to be called a ‘good little doggie’ then.”
The 17th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today in 1941. It dealt with gluttony in a unique way.
“One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it.”
The Screwtape Letters – XVII
(first published in The Guardian on 8/22/1941)
The following part of an occasional series where I chat with a Lewis expert about one of his shorter works. This is with Brenton Dickieson, who maintains a popular blog called “A Pilgrim in Narnia.” The essay we examine is “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” which can be found in On Stories.
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)
“The Day with a White Mark,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 17, 1949 issue of Punch.
Complete the quote and name the source (6 words):
“Christ died for men precisely because _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____; to make them worth it.”
Lewis did something “great” in his early life this month; what was it?
“If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe-no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house.”
“Materialism or Religion”
(Broadcast on BBC from 8/20/1941; known as “What Lies Behind the Law” in Mere Christianity)
