Into the Wardrobe

Moved to C. S. Lewis forum.

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...

'"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...

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.