Tag: Mere Christianity

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 25th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series was give live today (10/25) in 1942. It is known as “The Great Sin.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison…[pride] is the complete anti-God state of mind.”

The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Earlier this month Lewis preached his first sermon…what was the title and when was it?

TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.

ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:In October, 1935 The Pilgrim’s Regress (second edition) was published.

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 17th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The 25th Screwtape Letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Enemy Loves Platitudes.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[Screwtape Complains:] “The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is that it is merely Christian. They all have individual interests, of course, but the bond remains mere Christianity.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXV – The Enemy Loves Platitudes
(First published in The Guardian on 10/17/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What character does Lewis give a name to that narrates his retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 11th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The fourth talk from the third BBC series, “Sexual Morality” was given today in 1942.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong.”

Sexual Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/11/1942; Chapter Five from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book that is a part of Mere Christianity was published this month (in what year)?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 5th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date in 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“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 four from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote:
“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 27th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The 2nd talk in the third BBC series (Christian Behaviour) was broadcast today in 1942. Published it was called “Social Morality”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”

Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book that was a collection of shorter works by Lewis was published this month in his lifetime?
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RETROSPECT: September 22nd – 30th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for September 22nd – 30th include: Debut story of a Sci-Fi trilogy, a landmark book published anonymously and the death of Lewis’s father to cancer.

It’s no secret that Lewis is known for being a versatile writer. One of his earliest efforts that spotlighted this fact is what happened on the 23rd in 1938. This is when Lewis released the first of what is referred to many fans as the Ransom trilogy. That’s because Dr. Elwin Ransom is a central character introduced in Out of the Silent Planet. Released a dozen years before the Narnia stories, some call this his first imaginative apologetic work. Apparently Lewis himself wasn’t aware of how useful of a tool fiction could be to present Christian ideas in a latent way. It was

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 16th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama by Lewis was published today (9/16) in 1954. (It was nearly 30 years in the making).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The rule of decorum exists to avoid clashes or shocks to organized sensibility: but it was an early discovery that an occasional defiance of the rule, resulting in a shock, can give pleasure; a pleasure rich in tragic or comic possibilities. Indeed one of the purposes for which the rule exists is that it may sometimes be broken.”

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Published 9/16/1954)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Before Narnia and Mere Christianity Lewis landed on the cover of what magazine?
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RETROSPECT: September 1st – 11th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for September 1-11 include: Two Narnia books published, a final fictional work, being on the cover of Time in the U.S. and his only title devoted to a book of the Bible.

Time CoverThe number of books published over the years during these ten days would be enough for most authors for an entire lifetime. Although, two of the titles are collections of shorter works were released after his death, interestingly the five others were during the last eleven years of his life. An additional title, A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis, is a lesser known collection of quotes first available in March, 1968, but was published as a paperback on the 9th in 1980.

C.S. Lewis — Mere Christian: Mere Christianity (Event)

William OFlaherty Special Feature

Robert Trexler, publisher, writer, and scholar of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis, will be speaking on “C.S. Lewis – Mere Christian: Mere Christianity on Saturday, September 13th. It will take place at Campbell Hall at Christ Episcopal Church in Sausalito, CA. The church is sponsoring the event, with the C.S. Lewis Society of California and New York C.S. Lewis Society co-sponsoring.

This special event kicks off at 2 o’clock with a wine & cheese reception.

RETROSPECT: August 22nd – 31st

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for August 22nd – 31st include: An unfortunate childhood loss, letters from Screwtape on gluttony and love, and the radio broadcast of the last chapter of what’s now book one of Mere Christianity.

As mentioned during a previous column last month, Lewis lost his wife to cancer. The second most significant loss for him was during his childhood, when his mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton Lewis, died on the 23rd in 1908. This was also due to cancer. Although Lewis had prayed for his mother to live, he reports not actually being a Christian at the time