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 …
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
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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 must not use an apostle’s teaching to contradict that of Our Lord.
Letter to Mrs. Emily Mclay 8/3/1953
(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):
“Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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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 first third of June (1st – 11th) include: two standout letters to children about Narnia, the acceptance of a new position late in his professional career and his most famous sermon.
Before the magic of Narnia started in 1950 C.S. Lewis had a magical year in 1941. In April he gave his first RAF talk, in May his first letter by Screwtape was published, in August he gave his first radio talk on the BBC and was asked to do a second series in September, then in December he gave a special series of lectures that became A Preface to Paradise Lost. But it is during the first part of June, 1941 that some would say was the best thing
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”)
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to the thing and can compare it with the representation.”
Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism
(Talk given on 5/11/1959)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are _____ ______ _____ .”
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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.
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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 men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
Religion and Rocketry
(Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 issue of Christian Herald)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who is asleep in The Silver Chair but wakes up in The Last Battle?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis spent the first night in his new rooms at Magdalene College, Cambridge on this day (1/7) in 1955.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”
The Abolition of Man
(Published on 1/6/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Why did Lewis marry Joy Davidman twice?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s inaugural lecture for Cambridge University was given on this date (11/29) in 1954. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.”
De Descriptione Temporum
(Inaugural lecture given by Lewis on 11/29/54)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
In “The Great Divorce” the residents of what place go on a holiday trip to where?
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Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
“Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages” is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in July, 1956 (on the 17th and 18th) to a group of scientists at the Zoological Laboratory in Cambridge.
On this day in 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University.
