CSL Daily 8/03

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we …

CSL Daily 5/11

FACT OF THE DAY: The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” was given today (5/11) in 1959 to students at Wescott House, Cambridge. (Also known as Fern-Seed and Elephants”) – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to …

CSL Daily 4/21

  FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/29

FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/29) in 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/2

FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/2) in 1967 Spenser’s Images of Life was published. It was edited by Alastair Fowler and based on Lewis’s Cambridge lectures. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Faerie Queene is perhaps the most difficult poem in English. Quite how difficult, I am only now beginning to realize after …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/3

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/11

FACT OF THE DAY: The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” was given today (5/11) in 1959 to students at Wescott House, Cambridge. (Also known as Fern-Seed and Elephants”) – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/21

FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because …