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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 31st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (5/31) in 1951 Lewis was having dinner with Roger Lancelyn Green and it was on this occasion that he asked him to be his biographer.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, morally higher, but richer, more varied, more subtle.

Transposition
(Sermon preached on 5/28/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What talk did Lewis give this month at the Oxford Socratic Club that had a question mark in the title?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 29th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on 5/28/1944 at the chapel of Mansfield College. The text is in The Weight of Glory.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be modified in response to our prayers.”

Work and Prayer
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 5/28/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“I believe that was the sort of thing I was thinking of…But….I’ve an idea that all those circles and things are rather rot. I don’t think he’d like them. It would look as if we thought we could make him do things. But really, we can only ask him.”
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RETROSPECT: May 22th – 31st

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for the final third of May (22nd – 31st) include: A prize-winning essay, his first Christian book that was his only true allegory and a Pentecost sermon.

Lewis’s first book after becoming a Christian was very different in several ways than his two previous works. Those initial titles were poetry, while The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism, publishedon the 25th in 1933 was his debut prose effort. Additionally, the story was pure allegory. Interestingly, it was such a difficult read that Lewis himself even admitted it and ten years after its release he wrote a preface to explain his approach to the story.

RETRO: September 12th – 21st

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect

Highlights for September 12th -21st include: Another Narnia book published, a landmark professional title, a final poetry book and the start of his third broadcast series.

If you thought the previous ten day span over the years was a productive period for Lewis, then you will be no less amazed at what occurred during this time. In the above highlights I didn’t even mentioned the autobiography that