Showing posts with label C. S. Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C. S. Lewis. Show all posts
Saturday, April 03, 2021

Lewis on retribution, revenge, and mercy

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 For Lewis punishment is about retribution,  which is different from revenge. Revenge is not limited by what someone deserves, and typically...
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Friday, September 18, 2020

Anscombe's final response to Lewis's revised chapter in Miracles

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  This  is a paper Anscombe did for the Oxford C. S. Lewis society, which I have not seen until recently. 
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

William Lane Craig on C. S. Lewis

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Here .
Monday, October 05, 2015

What the laws of nature tell us

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“But, don’t you see,” said I, “that science never could show anything of the sort?” “Why on earth not?” “Because science studies Nature....
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

What is the characteristic blindness of our age?

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When we read the writings coming from previous centuries, we say "Typical Victorian. Typical Medieval. Typical eighteenth-century....
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Sunday, December 21, 2014

J. R. Lucas on The Abolition of Man

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With some interesting material on Lewis-Anscombe as well.
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

A review of Adam Barkmans "C. S. Lewis and Philosophy as a Way of Life"

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C. S. Lewis’s work is certainly varied, from children’s fantasy fiction, to science fiction, to scholarly writings in English literature, to...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Thick and Clear Religions

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A redated post. From C. S. Lewis's essay "Christian Apologetics, " found in God in the Dock . “I have sometimes told my au...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

C. S. Lewis rejects idealism

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A tutor must make things clear. Now the Absolute cannot be made clear. Do you mean Nobody-knows-what, or do you mean a superhuman mind and ...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

A redated April Fool's Day meditation

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April Fool's day is today, but what I have to say is not specific to that day. On AFD, people try to show up the gullibility of their ...
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Lewis's Inaugural Essay for Cambridge

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In which he refers to himself as a dinosaur. A redated post.
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Sunday, December 08, 2013

A C. S. Lewis blog

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Monday, September 30, 2013

C. S. Lewis on Faith from Mere Christianity

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A redated post. Roughly speaking, the word faith seems to be used by Christians in two senses or on two levels, and I will take them in tu...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Lewis's voice recording has moved

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To here.
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Does size matter? An argument for atheism

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A redated post. John Loftus takes this argument from Nicholas Everitt. Lewis always included responses to the argument that the size of th...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

An essay on Lewis on Scripture

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Here. HT: Bob Prokop
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Monday, December 10, 2012

The Three Parts of Morality

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A redated post. The Three Parts of Morality Book 3, Chapter 1 “There is a story of a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was li...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Propaganda, Mockery, and Following the Argument

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An important distinction has to be made about the whole mockery issue. If we are talking about mockery in and of itself, I don't see the...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

C. S. Lewis's Vision of Heaven: Positively Desirable?

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A redated post. There is a comment on here from Leah Libresco, back when she was an atheist. One weakness that Christians have in the mode...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

A critique of Lewis's "Why I am not a Pacifist"

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Although Lewis was not a pacifist, Stanley Hauerwas thinks he should have been. HT: Bob Prokop
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