“[The] scientific method merely shows…that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.” – from Religion without Dogma?

Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” today in 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version is in God in the Dock.

According to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader we don’t know what Eustace’s friends called him because he didn’t have any!  

“A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all the anomalies, inconveniences, hopes, and excitements of a house that is being rebuilt.”

Miracles: A Preliminary Study

(Published 5/12/1947)

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):

“A man is _____ _____ _____ as when striking an attitude of humility!”

Lewis’s mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton, was born today in 1862. She went by “Flora.”  

“The sort of statement that arouses our deepest scepticism is the statement that something in a Gospel cannot be historical because it shows a theology or an ecclesiology too developed for so early a date.” Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (“Fern-seed and Elephants”) (Lecture given on 5/11/1959)

“Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of scepticism about scepticism itself.” Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (“Fern-seed and Elephants”) (Lecture given on 5/11/1959)