FACT OF THE DAY: “Christianity and Culture” appeared in the March 1940 issue of Theology, but someone replied to it that lead Lewis to comment further. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 27th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Narrative Poems was released today (10/27) in 1969. It included the entire contents of Dymer, Lewis’s second poetry book.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven – a senile benevolence who as they say ‘liked to see young people enjoying themselves.'”
The Problem of Pain
(Published 10/18/1940)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
This order for the Narnian books is surely one of the most common in the world: 1) HHB, 2) LB, 3) LWW, 4) MN, 5) PC, 6) SC and 7)VDT. Despite being so common perhaps no one has ever actually read them in this order. Can you guess why that order is so common? (submitted by Stanley Anderson)
TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:It is the order one would find them on the shelves of any public library – ie, in alphabetical order by title (with any preceding “The” moved to the end of the title, of course)
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 18th
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 17th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The essay now known as “The Necessity of Chivalry” was first published today (8/17) in 1940 in Time and Tide.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There is still life in the tradition which the Middle Ages inaugurated. But the maintenance of that life depends, in part, on knowing that the knightly character is art not nature—something that needs to be achieved, not something that can be relied upon to happen. ”
The Necessity of Chivalry
(Published in Time and Tide on 8/17/1940)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (6 words):
“Christ died for men precisely because _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____; to make them worth it.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 2nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so peculiarly intolerable.”
Letter to Owen Barfield 6/2/1940
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the first action of Prince Rilian in The Silver Chair when he is free of his enchantment?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 16th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis preached “The Grand Miracle” in April (on the 15th) in 1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. Now found in God in the Dock.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question ‘Who is righteous?’— for the worse of two disputants may always be in the right on one particular issue.”
Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/16/1940
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The great thing is to be found at one’s post as a child of God, living each day as though _____ _____ _____ _____ , but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 15th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Dangers of National Repentance” is an essay by Lewis published today (3/15) in 1940 in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.”
Dangers of National Repentance
(Published in The Guardian on 3/15/40)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What two types (or natures) of love does Lewis describe in The Four Loves?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 6th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Christianity and Culture” appeared in the March 1940 issue of Theology, but someone replied to it that lead Lewis to comment further.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must either break down or be restated in some v. much subtler form.”
Letter to Sheldon Vanauken 3/6/1955
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
How many books are there in The Chronicle of Narnia series?
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QUOTE: October 18, 2013
“Evil comes from the abuse of free will.”
The Problem of Pain
(Published 10/18/1940)
FACT: October 18, 2013
The Problem of Pain, Lewis’s first apologetic book was published today (10/18) in 1940. (Some say it was on the 14th)