“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”
Morality and Psychoanalysis
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter three from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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: September 28, 2013
“[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.”
Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
FACT: September 27, 2013
The 2nd talk in the third BBC series (Christian Behaviour) was broadcast today in 1942. Published it was called “Social Morality”
FACT: September 20, 2013
Christian Behaviour, the third BBC series for #CSLewis began on this day in 1942. The first talk was “The Three Parts of Morality.”
QUOTE: September 20, 2013
“Think of humanity as a band playing a tune. To get a good result, you need two things . Each player’s individual instrument must be in tune and also each must come in at the right moment so as to combine with all the others.”
The Three Parts of Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/20/1942; Chapter one from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
Fact: July 13, 2013
Broadcast Talks was first released in the U.K. on this date in 1942, containing the initial two radio series on the BBC.
It was also on this day in 1960 that Joy Davidman, Lewis’s wife died, after losing her battle with cancer.
Lewis Didn’t Like Screwtape (CSLM-03)
While C.S. Lewis is known primarily for The Chronicle of Narnia books, his first really big “claim to fame” came from another series…one that he didn’t particularly like himself.