What book mere dealing with “words” was published this month?
QUOTE: September 14, 2013
“The educated man habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries.”
“God in the Dock”
(First published as “Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers” in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae )
QUIZ: September 13, 2013
What final fictional book from Lewis was released this month?
FACT: September 13, 2013
In the U.S. The Weight of Glory was published on this day (9/13) in 1949. It was called Transposition in the U.K. and later updated in 1980.
QUOTE: September 13, 2013
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable.”
Learning in War-Time
(Published in The Weight of Glory on 9/13/1949)
FACT: September 12, 2013
The 20th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today in 1941. The main topic is sexual temptation.
QUOTE: September 12, 2013
[Screwtape boasts:]
“Our best weapon—the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting rid of us except by yielding [to temptation].”
The Screwtape Letters – XX
(First published in The Guardian on 9/12/1941)
QUIZ: September 12, 2013
How many languages has the Chronicles of Narnia been translated into?
QUOTE: September 11, 2013
“The scratches on your back, tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood, were equal to the stripes laid on the back of your stepmother’s slave because of the drugged sleep you cast upon her. You needed to know what it felt like.”
The Horse and His Boy
(Published 9/6/54)
QUIZ: September 11, 2013
Name the source of this quote: “Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.”