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Reflections on Mere Christianity

I’m looking back through Mere Christianity these days, one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors. Some miscellaneous thoughts: 1) Lewis’ appeal to mere Christianity was not tantamount to doctrinal minimalism, as...

January 16, 20125 Comments

A Review of Orwell’s Review of That Hideous Strength

On August 16, 1945, just days after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, George Orwell, author of the dystopian novel 1984, wrote a review of C.S. Lewis’ similarly dystopian novel That...

September 19, 20111 Comment

The dry and choking places

Picking up in my previous post, here’s a crucial passage in the depiction of Mark’s redemption. Its such a creative literary presentation of the conviction of sin: There were no moral considerations at this moment...

September 16, 2011No Comments

Hugeness

One of my favorite things to do these days is to go on a long hike in the mountains with Sophia and listen to either That Hideous Strength or Till We Have Faces on my...

September 13, 2011No Comments

Like a Solid Thing

Here’s another favorite passage from That Hideous Strength. A few good characters are searching for the historical Merlin, come back from the dead. One of them, Dimble, a scholar, is more aware of their danger...

January 30, 2011No Comments

Almost Anything Might Be True

I keep listening to That Hideous Strength on my ipod shuffle when I go hiking with Sophia. Its one of my favorite books. This is a great passage in which Jane’s skepticism about God and...

January 27, 2011No Comments

Joad and Lewis on Natural Evil

About a year and half ago I stumbled across C.S. Lewis’ treatment of the problem of the suffering of animals before the human fall in chapter 9 of his The Problem of Pain, titled “On...

September 15, 20101 Comment

Religion Without Dogma?

I am listening to C.S. Lewis’ God in the Dock this week and last, and I have to say that his essay “Religion without Dogma?” in the first section is fantastic. His apologetics at their...

September 14, 20105 Comments

Its Better to Repent

Repenting can be painful. Self-deception is always easier than staring the undisguised, unexcused ugliness of your sin in the face, completely owning up to it, genuinely hating it, and actually turning from it. But C.S....

September 10, 2010No Comments