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What religion is C S Lewis?

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Postby Sven » January 9th, 2006, 9:07 pm

Moved to C. S. Lewis forum.
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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Postby Sven » January 10th, 2006, 8:47 pm

No, it started in the homework forum. I moved it so the youngsters coming to get us to do their work for them wouldn't form a low opinion of the joint...
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: What religion is C S Lewis?

Postby Enyalie » January 11th, 2006, 10:35 am

'"My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name is great among the nations," Says the Lord Almighty'
Malachi 1:11, NIV

For those of you who were curious. No claws here ;)

Of course, the context here seems to have something to do with telling some priests about their faithlessness, (basically the whole chapter is something to the effect of Where's the respect? "My name is great among the nations' but you priests profane it by... bunch of naughty things priests were doing like sacrificing blind or diseased animals and generally being contemptuous) rather than commanding anybody regarding the specific use of incense or lack thereof, so I fail to see the relevancy...

I may be misunderstanding the intention of the original post, but I don't think I'm the only one. If you must preach to us about how God supposedly said things should be done... well, don't, actually. But it helps if your reference actually WORKS.

(Okay, just a teensy bit of a glimpse of maybe potential claw...)


Sigh... I just got involved in an off-topic religious arugment. Tsk, tsk, me. But I think CS Lewis would have disapproved of the use of invalid biblical arguments, out of place or not...
“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”

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Postby Bill » January 11th, 2006, 3:58 pm

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re: What religion is C S Lewis?

Postby postodave » January 19th, 2006, 6:04 pm

Lewis was C of E. But within that there are a number of different spiritualities. When Lewis first became a Christian he leaned a little towards Protestantism and made a number of digs at Anglo-Catholicism (eg. in Regress). He could be quite negative almost hostile to roman Cathlicism, for example in his book on C17 lit he calls it Papism, hardly a neutral term whatever he may pretend. Later he takes on a number of more Catholic beliefs. A lot of his influences were mystical writers in the neo-platonist tradition, such as Inge, who really belongs on the Catholic side of the C of E. aHe never got to grips with Paul, and certainly does not come close to anything like the Calvinist view of atonement. So I think his leanings were increasingly Catholic. But I think there was something lurking from that Irish boyhood that would never let him fully admit that.

Personally you see I tend to favour a protestant theology and a catholic spirituality, so I'm all for a bit of mix and match. By the way I think his intro to the translation of Athanasius on the Incarnation is really good and the translation it introduces (by an Anglican nun incidently) is well worth a read.
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Postby Karen » January 19th, 2006, 6:12 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Postby Sven » January 19th, 2006, 9:21 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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