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Lewis in the classroom

The man. The myth.

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Postby rusmeister » August 27th, 2006, 9:41 am

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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Postby Rosie Cotton » August 29th, 2006, 2:13 pm

... and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
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Postby Mary » August 29th, 2006, 4:05 pm

I am not a teacher, but I will be at some point, so I like this topic. High school history is what I am training for, so I'm not sure that I have a lot to add here, specifically, but I'll continue to read.
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Postby David » August 29th, 2006, 5:09 pm

When I did my Ph.D. I found quickly that a lot of teachers who are not believers of any sort respect C. S. Lewis as a scholar. They know him as the author of The Allegory of Love, A Preface to Paradise Lost, The Discarded Image, and othe such works. Today I taught a class at a state university and brought in C. S. Lewis's idea of primary and secondary epic in talking about Beowulf.

Sometimes we don't realize that emphasizing the scholarly side of Lewis is a good way to get into his spiritual writing. A good spur to read his more scholarly work!

I have, by the way, read English Literature in the Early Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama--all 600 pages of it! It was worth the journey.
The way, the weather, the terrain, the discipline, the leadership. --Sun Tzu
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Postby loeee » August 29th, 2006, 5:37 pm

"You can't go walking through Mordor in naught but your skin."
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