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Tag Archives: CS Lewis
The Everlastingness of Us
This is from CS Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” from the chapter on “The Three Parts of Morality”. Again, Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there … Continue reading
Ecclesiastes and CS Lewis
Disappointment with church runs through the post-christendom emergent movement. It is the response to the can-do seeker movement where going through the seven steps or running the bases led to predicable results of Biblical wisdom combined with American financial/psychological know-how. … Continue reading
Life of the age to come
Just some more work on my gospel vocabulary. Here’s another way to think about it belief, consequence, judgment and the life of the age to come. What Jesus does when he proclaims that the kingdom-of-heaven/earth/eternal-life/being-in-Christ is at hand, is that … Continue reading
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Tagged age of decay, age to come, CS Lewis, relational polarity, resurrection
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CS Lewis on Our Problem
From the Problem of Pain, the chapter on The Fall of Man Someone or something whispered that they could become as gods—that they could cease directing their lives to their Creator and taking all their delights as uncovenanted mercies, as … Continue reading
The Constancy of Afterlife Character
I’m working on the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. It is an amazing parable. If you want to read someone who reads the text slowly and carefully with a culture eye see Kenneth Bailey’s treatment of it in … Continue reading
CS Lewis clarifies Christian Morality in terms of immortality
Again, from Mere Christianity. The chapter on Morality and Psychoanalysis And that leads on to my second point. People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, if you keep a lot of rules … Continue reading
Lewis on the consequences of human immortality
From Mere Christianity from the chapter on Three Parts of Morality Again, Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things … Continue reading
Two women, the kings and the nations
The book of Revelation ends with an interesting tale of two cities. Augustine didn’t get this stuff out of thin air. Revelation 17:1 begins with one of the angels from the seven plagues giving John a tour of the whore … Continue reading
What helps me to NOT believe the world is flat
I wrote this for a friend at Calvin-in-Common who was sharing how he listens to Handel’s Messiah with longing. He loves the music but has come to doubt the texts it is built upon. Tolkien is one of my Christmas … Continue reading
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Revelation 17: The Beast Consumes the Whore, where the relational polarity of the age of decay always leads
I’ve been working through the book of Revelation for quite a while now in our Adult Sunday School class. This week we talked about the vision in Revelation 17 of the whore of Babylon and her relationship with the beast. … Continue reading
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