tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121065902011-07-14T14:35:03.363-07:00Reflections on the writings of Clive Staples LewisSethicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438930872322218451noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12106590.post-1132971629011715922005-11-27T23:03:00.000-08:002005-11-28T23:06:41.136-08:00

Two Griefs Observed:The Love and Grief of Jack and OrualWhen C.S. Lewis set out to rewrite a classical myth with a focus on grief and love, the resulting story became a personal favorite of his. Later, during his own period of intense grief and anguished love, he wrote a book which has become a favorite of many of his readers. The stories contained within these two books show very different

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If Naturalism—the belief that only Nature, as an interlocking system, exists—is correct, it should be able to explain any event as a necessary part of a Total System. If anything exists wholly independent of that System, then Naturalism is false. All knowledge beyond immediate sensation is the result of inference, which requires the validity of inference--also called reasoning. If knowledge

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     In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis sets out to explore what Man is able to discover apart from special revelation and what it is that special revelation gives to mankind. In particular, he attempts to lay the necessary foundations for a generic system of morality, and then builds on top of that foundation the specific moral teachings of Christianity. In taking this approach, he is

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HumilityOf course, it is very right, and often our duty, not to care what people think of us, if we do so for the right reason; namely, because we care so incomparably more what God thinks. But the Proud man has a different reason for not caring. He says 'Why should I care for the applause of that rabble as if their opinion were worth anything? ... They're nothing to me.' In this way real

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Malacandra Originally uploaded by Sethicus. Well, I read it. I enjoyed it. I found a few good nuggets in it, but I must admit that I had a remarkably difficult time really wrapping my brain around it. I was wholly unable to get a mental picture of what the Sorns and Pfiffiltrigi looked like, and was only able to imagine the Hrossa because of the picture on the cover.I am looking forward

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And the prophecy I make is this. To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will come, when it does come, in no very dramatic colours. Obviously bad men, obviously threatening or bribing, will almost certainly not appear. Over a drink or a cup of coffee, disguised as a triviality and sandwiched between two jokes, from the lips of a man, or woman, whom you have recently

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Firenze Originally uploaded by Sethicus. "The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbour's glory should be laid on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature

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To be ashamed of what you were about to say, to pretend that something which you had meant seriously was only a joke&#8212this is an ignoble part. But it is better than not to be ashamed at all. And the distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuthhounds conceive.I have often subscribed to the belief that the first step

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Some might think that ... [Fribble] might have come forward and confessed his part when he saw what I was in for. But that, you know, was hardly to be expected. ... By coming forward he would have imperiled his social position, in a community where social advancement was the one thing that mattered; school is a preparation for public life.One of the interesting things about Lewis is his keen

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Originally uploaded by Sethicus. A new element had entered my life: Vulgarity. Up till now I had committed nearly every other sin and folly within my power, but I had not yet been flashy.Yeah... that was a stabbing conviction right there. While reading this chapter I realized, for the first time, just how little I desire to be the "flashy" person I have become since I began working at

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Conways Originally uploaded by Sethicus. As I was reading Surprised by Joy last night, I had a few reflections on my own childhood experiences. I have few memories that have stuck with me as clearly as those recounted by C.S. Lewis, but what was particularly striking to me is the positive influence that reminiscing can have on oneself. As we are so often told, "it is not good to dwell on

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Narnia Originally uploaded by Sethicus. You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.One of the things that I have learned since coming to Torrey is the constructive power of the imagination. I have often been accused by my teachers of having an overactive imagination (which often bore fruit during class), which led to my

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