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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 12th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

A second edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress was published in October, 1935 by Sheed & Ward. The first publisher was J.M. Dent in 1933. The Pilgrim’s Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition officially comes out today (10/12/14).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.”

The Pilgrim’s Regress
(2nd Edition Published October 1935)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“It is great men, potential saints, not little men, who become merciless fanatics…. They are _____ _____, _____ _____ , some temptations.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 27th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May 28, 1945 edition of The Coventry Evening Telegraph weekly paper.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.”

The Pilgrim’s Regress
(Published 5/25/1933)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What close friend of Lewis died sometime this month?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 25th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published 81 years ago today (5/25/33).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.”

Letter to Genia Goelz 5/15/1952
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“On a great day the thing that makes it great may fill the_____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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RETROSPECT: May 22th – 31st

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Highlights for the final third of May (22nd – 31st) include: A prize-winning essay, his first Christian book that was his only true allegory and a Pentecost sermon.

Lewis’s first book after becoming a Christian was very different in several ways than his two previous works. Those initial titles were poetry, while The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism, publishedon the 25th in 1933 was his debut prose effort. Additionally, the story was pure allegory. Interestingly, it was such a difficult read that Lewis himself even admitted it and ten years after its release he wrote a preface to explain his approach to the story.

RETROSPECT: April 11th – 19th

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The following is part of a series reflecting on the life of C.S. Lewis. This is accomplished by summarizing various events or happenings during his lifetime for the noted period and may include significant events related to him after his death.

Highlights for the second third of April (11th – 19th) include: Publication of third BBC series; Publication of second book from BBC Talks; four posthumous books and the final installment about a bus ride to heaven.

Christian Behaviour: A Further series of Broadcast Talks tops the list of happenings over the years in the life of Lewis. It was first published on the 19th in 1943 in the U.K. (and nine months later in the U.S.). As you may be aware, it was just the second book printed of three that eventually became part of Mere Christianity. What gets confusing to some is that when you examine the book from 1952 Christian Behavior is stated as being “Book III.”

Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 11th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis spoke on the BBC today (2/11) in 1949 on “The Novels of Charles Williams.” It was recorded and is also in On Stories.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“To find that one’s emotions do not ‘come to heel’ and line up as stable sentiments in permanent conformity with one’s convictions is simply the facts of being a fallen, and still imperfectly redeemed, man.”
Letter to Michael Edwardson 2/11/1960
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis wrote a letter in 1933 to what friend about what soon to be written famous book by what other friend?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 4th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (2/4) in 1933 Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves about reading a draft of The Hobbit (not published till ’37).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children’s story which Tolkien has just written.”

Letter to Arthur Greeves on 2/4/1933
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis had a debate in the late 1940’s with whom and what was it about?
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