Out of the Silent Planet
I’ve been listening to Out of the Silent Planet this week. Its not quite as good as the other two books in the space trilogy, I don’t think – but nevertheless its a lot of...
Read moreI’ve been listening to Out of the Silent Planet this week. Its not quite as good as the other two books in the space trilogy, I don’t think – but nevertheless its a lot of...
Read moreSome C.S. Lewis scholars have popularized the idea that Lewis had a serious crisis of faith after a debate with Elizabeth Anscombe, a Roman Catholic philosopher, at the Oxford Socratic Club on February 2, 1948. ...
Read moreListening to Perelandra this week. My favorite part is when Ransom and the Un-man fight. I especially love this scene, where Lewis describes the evil of the Un-man (the devil), and then Ransom finds new...
Read moreI enjoyed listening to this lecture on Till We Have Faces by Peter Kreeft (Roman Catholic philosopher, professor at Boston College, author of dozens of books, huge C.S. Lewis fan). Right off the bat he...
Read moreI’ve been listening to my favorite book this week, C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. Its one of those books that sneaks up on you. You can get 2/3 through it – perhaps even 3/4...
Read moreOkay, another quick post on That Hideous Strength. Walter Savage Landor once wrote, after quoting two lines from Milton’s Paradise Lost, “I would rather have written these two lines than all the poetry that as...
Read moreThis week I have been listening to C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength, which may be my second favorite of his books, after Till We Have Faces. It starts off a bit slowly, and its perhaps...
Read moreIn my previous series of posts arguing that the Satanic fall may be the explanation for the fallenness of nature, I quoted C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain, chapter 9, “On Animal Pain.” While listening...
Read moreI’ve been listening to the audio version of C.S. Lewis’ Miracles while walking dogs lately, and I must say that chapter 11 of this book, “Christianity and ‘Religion,'” which addresses the doctrine of Trinity and...
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