What book did Lewis review this month (and what year) that was about another author’s fictional work?
FACT: October 4, 2013
“Morality and Psychoanalysis” is the title of what was first the third talk given today in 1942 from Lewis’s third BBC series.
QUOTE: October 3, 2013
“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?
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)
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.