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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...

August 7, 20102 Comments

Some 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. ...

August 2, 201011 Comments

The Purpose of Hatred

Listening 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...

July 21, 20102 Comments

Lewis and Male Chauvinism

I 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...

June 17, 2010No Comments

Themes in Till We Have Faces

I’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...

June 16, 201016 Comments

Literary Creativity in That Hideous Strength

Okay, 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...

May 1, 2010No Comments

That Hideous Strength

This 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...

April 30, 2010No Comments

Lewis on the Satanic Fall and Corruption of Nature (again)

In 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...

March 30, 2010No Comments

The Living God

I’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...

March 26, 2010No Comments