C.S. Lewis

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197Rational and Religious 1 Jul 2024 46:51¶ 152 “Yeah. You can begin to bring this to the things that Lewis discussed in That Hideous Strength and The Abolition of Man. What happens…” 47:22¶ 153 “You can say all you want, “But there’s no religion here.” Lewis argues that’s when the devil wins – the Materialist Magician, when we…” 48:03¶ 154 “As Lewis foresaw, the ‘science’ of parapsychology suggests we can have spirits and have science. We just can’t have the God of the Bible,…”

144Broken Cisterns 14 Nov 2022 40:35¶ 134 “For those of you who don’t know, Lewis was not always a Christian. That came from Surprised by Joy, his spiritual autobiography. There was…” 36:20¶ 121 “C.S. Lewis in response to this says – and I don’t know if this quote is from The Weight of Glory, the next one…” 36:47¶ 123 “This next quote is from The Weight of Glory. He says this. “A man’s physical hunger does not prove that man will get any…”

124No Other Stream 27 Jun 2022 43:01¶ 165 “Yes, I wish he had – in that series, yes. The young pagan shows up in heaven and feels out of place because he’s…” 43:34¶ 166 “I’m sorry, Jack. What were you thinking when you wrote that? I do not understand.” 43:43¶ 167 “Once upon a time I was writing something, and I don’t even remember which article it was now – I think it was for…”

92An Unlikely Hero - Fantasy 15 Nov 2021 27:58¶ 89 “Fantasy goes another step further. It says, “Look, what if the world were different?” Lewis called this supposal. “Suppose the world were different. Suppose…” 50:20¶ 158 “Tolkien does make reference to God. Of course, Lewis does, both in his Space Trilogy and The Great Divorce and in the Narnia series,…” 50:34¶ 159 “Let me just go off on this tangent. I used to wonder about Till We Have Faces because I assumed that the gods that…”

83Baal and Astarte 13 Sep 2021 29:41¶ 106 “Yeah, but as a generic category in Screwtape. He says, “What happens when humans no longer believe in God, but do believe in demons?”…” 30:10¶ 107 “Screwtape says, “When that comes, the end of the game is almost there. When we can shut the idea of God out of their…” 38:34¶ 132 “I think this is a good place to insert everything that Lewis says, and that Rushdoony says, for that matter, on sociology. Now, I…”

70Science and Wonder 23 May 2021 11:07¶ 28 “Coming to Christ – I grew up in a Christian household, Presbyterian, but there was probably a lot of wandering around. The other David,…” 11:46¶ 29 “He’s a literature guy, but for me he was one of the most scientifically-minded people that I could have read at the time because…” 54:48¶ 177 “Sure. When you think that nature is all that there is, it’s a challenge. I mentioned earlier that it was reading C.S. Lewis that…”

67The Metaphysics of Christian Education 11 Apr 2021 23:25¶ 75 “Lewis addresses this in The Abolition of Man. What happens when we have so transcended nature that nothing is natural, even our impulses, even…” 25:16¶ 79 “Lewis has that other quote. I can never remember which book of his it’s in, but it’s about a society of tyrannical absolute moral…” 26:04¶ 82 “Oh, I know what it was. It was in his discussion of punishment versus rehabilitation. He says, “Do we really want to surrender our…”

53The Right to Punishment 3 Jan 2021 29:13¶ 98 “One of the things we have to see here is that Lewis is not saying that these psychotherapists are bad people. They may have…” 26:04¶ 84 “There’s a couple wonderful quotes from C.S. Lewis about this rehabilitation thing. One is from his novel That Hideous Strength. He has one of…” 28:02¶ 96 “This is something else from Lewis. This is from “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment.” It appears as an essay in God in the Dock.…”

43The Secret Theology of Pets 25 Oct 2020 36:10¶ 143 “That’s one thing I appreciate about C.S. Lewis. He has a section about animal pain in The Problem of Pain, and almost the first…” 36:26¶ 144 “He was an enemy of vivisection, of cutting up animals just to see what might be there. He makes that a minor theme in…” 36:49¶ 148 “He suggests, if I remember correctly, that heaven for mosquitoes could be in the same place as the hell for people, and that it…”

15The Babylon Project 12 Apr 2020 19:58¶ 61 “Lewis tries to get at this, I think pretty well, in the Psyche story, Till We Have Faces. He knew enough of the ancient…” 20:38¶ 62 “And Lewis wasn’t a Christian when he re-told the story. I think he went back and edited it.” 20:50¶ 65 “I don’t know. I would have to look. I know that when asked about who Psyche is, he wrote to one lady, “Psyche is…”