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C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

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C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby sherrribeth » May 9th, 2005, 9:08 pm

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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby loeee » May 9th, 2005, 9:51 pm

Sherribeth, I think Lewis discusses this in more than one book. I think he says something like that in Letters to Malcolm and maybe also in an essay (perhaps in God in the Dock.

Sven, you're the resident "Lewis concordance," have you more specific input?
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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby robsia » May 9th, 2005, 9:52 pm

"Here’s another WORSHIP QUOTE from the writings of C. S. Lewis, this time on
the subject of Christian deference and preferences in worship. That's right,
ours is not the first generation in which followers of Jesus have struggled
over style issues as they relate to the music used in corporate worship.


FIFTH-RATE HYMNS
When I first became a Christian, about fourteen years ago, I thought that I
could do it on my own, by retiring to my rooms and reading theology, and
wouldn't go to the churches and Gospel Halls; . . . . I disliked very much
their hymns which I considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate
music. But as I went on I saw the merit of it. I came up against different
people of quite different outlooks and different education, and then
gradually my conceit just began peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which
were just sixth-rate music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and
benefit by an old saint in elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then
you realize that you aren't fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your
solitary conceit.

C. S. Lewis, "Answers to Questions on Christianity" from GOD IN THE DOCK:
ESSAYS ON THEOLOGY AND ETHICS: Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970. (Reprint
edition, 1994) ISBN: 0802808689
"

From: http://www.fni.com/worship/200110/msg00389.html
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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby Sven » May 9th, 2005, 10:01 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby Stanley Anderson » May 9th, 2005, 10:13 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby Sven » May 9th, 2005, 10:35 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
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Postby Sven » May 9th, 2005, 10:42 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby Stanley Anderson » May 10th, 2005, 12:17 am

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby magpie » May 10th, 2005, 12:39 am

"Love is the will to extend one's self in order to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth."
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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby Stanley Anderson » May 11th, 2005, 3:45 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby Stanley Anderson » May 11th, 2005, 3:59 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Re: C. S. Lewis "concordance"?

Postby magpie » May 12th, 2005, 4:31 pm

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Postby magpie » May 14th, 2005, 3:15 pm

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