We are, Lewis suggested, like a seed waiting in the good earth: waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking. I suppose that our whole present life,...
Christianity is about the way we behave, not just the way we think.
And he had to face up to the awkward fact that, if there was no God, blame for the war’s horrors had to be laid firmly on human beings.
To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.
Helped Lewis along in the final stage of what the medieval writer Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221–1274) describes as the journey of the mind to God.
Without the advent of printing, there would have been no Reformation, and there might well have been no Protestantism either.
They taught me longing—Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower.
There was now a commercial reason for removing the Apocrypha—Bibles without it were both cheaper to produce, and smaller (and hence cheaper to transport overseas). Sensitive to the importance of both...
The printed word was integral to the spreading of the ideas of the Reformation across the religious and political boundaries of Europe. Martin Luther never visited England, yet his ideas were brought...
The first edition of the King James Bible to be published by Oxford University Press appeared in 1675; this was followed in 1682 by a sumptuous edition prepared by the Oxford printer John Baskett. The...
So why did the King James translators use an archaic verbal form in what was meant to be a modern translation? Again, the answer seems to lie with the rules provided for the translators, which more or...
Reading works of literature is about entering fully into the opinions, and therefore also the attitudes, feelings, and total experience of other people.[96] To read literature is thus to open us up to...
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses.
More serious was the misprint in an edition of 1631, which rendered Exodus 20:14 as follows: Thou shalt commit adultery. The omission of the word not was speedily corrected, but not before this had ca...
Many policy makers now think of education in functional terms. It’s about learning skills that will help students find employment—such as using a word processor or spreadsheet. Yet what about helping...
Lewis was thus drawn to Christianity not so much by the arguments in its favour, but by its compelling vision of reality, which he could not ignore—and, as events proved, could not resist.
Lewis rightly points out that this desire to be part of the Inner Ring is not really about friendship at all. It is about our own insecurity and yearning to matter. It is about using friends as tools...
Lewis helps us to appreciate that apologetics need not take the form of deductive argument. Instead, apologetics can be an invitation to step into the Christian way of seeing things, and explore how t...
Lewis discovered that God was the one who both disclosed and safeguarded meaning and morality.
Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626) declared that orthodox Christianity was based upon two testaments, three creeds, four gospels, and the first five centuries of Christian history. In