Christian History Magazine—Issue 88: C.S. Lewis: Pointing People to Reality
Overview
The creator of Narnia and other imaginary worlds spent his life pointing people to Reality. You will be enlightened and encouraged as you learn more about the life and work of C.S. Lewis in this issue of Christian History and Biography!
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Top Highlights
“Nobody ever learns how strong temptation can be until they have overcome it. Jack overcame many of the temptations that beset us every day, and having done so he gained a great understanding of the nature of temptation and also of people and their behavior. The private Jack was the man who fought against anger, impatience, intolerance, and all the other daily temptations, and mostly defeated them. The public Jack was the man who then went to the trouble of writing down all that he had learned from those battles so that others would benefit.” (source)
“‘In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university,’ he explained, ‘there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together into coteries where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other groups can say.’” (source)
“Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.… That is one of the reasons I believe in Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have.’” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 88: C.S. Lewis: Pointing People to Reality
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 2005
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics; England › 19th-20th centuries--Literature; Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963 › Biography
- Resource ID: LLS:CH88
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:41:01Z