They taught me longing—Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower.
The term synoptic gospels is often used to refer to the first three gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke). This term refers to their similar literary structure,
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...
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.
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 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...
It was this Bible that became known as the Great Bible. It included both the canonical and apocryphal books, mistakenly referring to the latter as the Hagiographa. The New Testament works were printed...
In the end, Christianity stands or falls with the trustworthiness and reliability of the God who raised Jesus Christ from the dead. By meditating on that first Good Friday, we can remind ourselves of...
Cultural assimilation is all too often the prelude to ecclesial extinction.
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.
Yet Lewis quickly realised that he was being forced to develop his critical thinking, based on evidence and reason rather than his personal intuitions.
We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.
Tolkien helped Lewis to realise that the problem lay not in Lewis’s rational failure to understand the theory, but in his imaginative failure to grasp its significance. The issue was not primarily abo...
The essential feature of a heresy is that it is not unbelief (rejection of the core beliefs of a worldview such as Christianity) in the strict sense of the term, but a form of that faith that is held...
Not everyone could read Latin; in any case, as Erasmus would make clear, there were some big problems with the accuracy of the Vulgate translation. In 1516, Erasmus declared that this traditional Lati...
Noah Webster, responsible for an influential dictionary that helped establish the distinctive aspects of American spelling. Webster was alarmed by a series of biblical passages that he regarded as off...
Lewis discovered that God was the one who both disclosed and safeguarded meaning and morality.