FACT OF THE DAY: Selected Literary Essays, edited by Walter Hooper, was first published today (Dec. 4) in 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 …
CSL Daily 12/03
FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis was published for the first time in the US today (Dec. 3) in 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 …
CSL Daily 12/02
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the 2nd of 3 of the Ballard Mathews lectures today (Dec. 2) in 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 …
CSL Daily 12/01
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (Dec. 1) in 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 …
CSL Daily 11/30
FACT OF THE DAY: God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics was released today (Nov. 30) in the US in 1970. 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 …
CSL Daily 11/29
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (Nov. 29) in 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University. 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 usually, without …
CSL Daily 11/28
FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (Nov. 28) in 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, …
CSL Daily 11/27
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 …
CSL Daily 11/26
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s funeral was held on this day (Nov. 26) in 1963 at Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry. Father Ronald Head lead the service. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow-countrymen either in the highly emotional form offered by revivalists …
CSL Daily 11/25
FACT OF THE DAY: Pictures of Lewis was taken on this day (Nov. 25) in 1950 by John Chillingsworth for Radio Times. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of …