Preview

C.S. Lewis' Essays

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
29456 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
C.S. Lewis' Essays
230 L673wo Lewis, Clive
.

$3.00

1B, ,ber essays. race [I960]

Soaples,

q

113P-

PUBLIC LIBRARY

DATE DUE

THE WORLD'S LAST NIGHT AND OTHER ESSAYS

ALSO BY

C. S.

LEWIS

The

Screwtape Letters
Miracles

The Problem

of Pain

Transposition

The

Pilgrim's Regress

The
The

Great Divorce

George MacDonald:

An

Anthology

Abolition of

Man

Mere

Christianity

Surprised by Joy
Reflections

on the Psalms

For Children

The

Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe

Prince Caspian

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Horse and His Boy The Magician's Nephew

The

Last Battle
Fiction

Out

of the Silent Planet

Perelandra

That Hideous Strength Till We Have Faces

The World's

Last Night

AND OTHER ESSAYS BY
C.
S.

Lewis

Harcourt, Brace and

Company

New

York

1952, i955>

1

9$>

J

959>

1

9Q

b7

c

-

s

-

Lewis

"Screwtape Proposes a Toast" copyright

1959 by Helen Joy Lewis

All rights reserved.

No

part of this book

may be

reproduced in any form or by any mechanical means, including mimeograph and tape recorder, without

permission in writing from the publisher.

first

edition

appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (January, n Obstinacy in Belief," a paper read to the Socratic Club, Oxford, in The Sewanee Review (Autumn, 1955); "Lilies That Fester"

"The
1

Efficacy of Prayer*' "

959)

The Twentieth Century (April, 1955); "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" The Saturday Evening Post (December, 1959); "Good Work and Good Works" in Catholic Art Quarterly (Christmas, 1959); "Religion in in

and Rocketry"
Space?")
(as

in Christian

Herald

(as

"Will

We

Lose

God

in

Outer

(April, 1958);

"The World's Last Night"
Its

in Religion in Life

"The

Christian

Hope

Meaning

for

Today")

(Winter, 1952).

Library of Congress Catalog Card

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Better Essays

    The book, The Great Divorce, was written in 1945 by C.S. Lewis. Lewis wrote the book as a response to William Blake’s book, Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In many ways, it is a refutation of Blake’s book; there is no marriage of heaven and hell. The book begins in a sad, dark, desolate place. The reader is led to believe that this place is hell. The narrator takes the reader throughout the streets of this peculiar place. Eventually, he stumbles upon a bus station, along with many other passengers. There is a long line of people waiting, so he falls in line with the rest of them. It becomes apparent very quickly that these people are not the friendliest of people. They are annoyed with each other at the slightest disturbance,…

    • 1644 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Four Loves, authored by British novelist C.S. Lewis, is often viewed as one of the best books written on the subject of love as it pertains to religion. In the book, Lewis covers many ideas including the four types of love which include: storgé (empathetic love/affection), philia love (the love between friends), Eros (erotic/romantic love), and Agapé (the unconditional ‘God’ love). In this book, Lewis also covers the differences between need and gift love; however, one of the most astounding statements that Lewis makes is in the storgé passage, specifically in the section about affection where he states, “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” (pg. 53). Lewis also states, "The highest does not stand without the lowest. (pg.9) If affection is part of storgé, which is considered the lowest love, then to obtain the higher loves one must have affection. Furthermore, storgé (commonly referred to as affection) creates stamina in natural relations between people due precisely to that low-level nature it…

    • 762 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Lewis died as a young man during the peak of his fame, but how exactly did he die? Lewis was an explorer and governor of the state of Louisiana at the time. He went on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and was Jefferson’s right-hand man, helping him prove Congress wrong, saying that they should’ve bought Louisiana for economic and other purposes. As for his death, historians have claimed that he committed suicide while at Grinder’s Stand for over 200 years. However, as we now look back, there are many holes in this claim. Lewis was a superstar back in the day, but he also had struggles and enemies of his own. Lewis died by murder by conspiracy.…

    • 762 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Jodock, Darrell. Catholicism Contending with Modernity: Roman Catholic Modernism and Anti-modernism in Historical Context. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2000. Print.…

    • 1651 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    How many points you have throughout your journey does not matter but the way in…

    • 607 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    While reading The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis, I encountered a few questions concerning his view on Ethical Innovation and the dilemma conditioners face. It was a difficult book with many ideas that didn’t come completely clear to me at times.…

    • 620 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    October 11, 1809 was a date that lead too many unanswered questions and confused people, the day of Meriwether Lewis’ death. Meriwether Lewis was the governor of the upper Louisiana territory and a leader in the Lewis & Clark expedition. Lewis died of 2 Gunshot wounds, one to his head and the other to his stomach. His death was initially ruled as a suicide and many people believed that theory besides Lewis’ family. More theories and conspiracies were made that made more people have different believes on the topic. Meriwether Lewis committed suicide because of becoming overwhelmed by personal problems and physical disease.…

    • 701 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    "The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture." The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2013.…

    • 1571 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Mason, Clarence E. “Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Bibliotheca sacra 125, no. 500 (October-______December 1968): p 352-359.…

    • 5833 Words
    • 24 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Journal Article Critique

    • 869 Words
    • 4 Pages

    [ 1 ]. . Nicholas Lobkowicz, “Christianity and Culture,” The Review of Politics 53, no. 2 (1991).…

    • 869 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Flannery O'Connor

    • 1164 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thoughts. 27 Sep. 2007. Lane Center Lecture Series. 19 Oct. 2011…

    • 1164 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Essay Of 1968

    • 1067 Words
    • 5 Pages

    What makes 1968 such a momentous year for so many? Is it the fact that it touched virtually every person on the entire globe in some form or fashion? Or is it because everyone around the globe was linked together by the progressive chains of change? This new wave of reform hit every nation differently, but elements of it were seen throughout much of the world and Mexico was no different. By hosting the Olympics in ’68, Mexico hoped to establish itself as a stable unified nation that was on par with other enlightened nations of the world. In doing so, Mexico had a lasting effect on the international community in three very different ways: First, was Mexico’s ability to hold such a relatively “peaceful” games during such a turbulent year, followed…

    • 1067 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Even though this book is much of a shortcoming from what people foresee in an Arthurian tale it does encompass a remarkable amount of spiritual guidance. This book analyzes…

    • 715 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The assertions made by Lewis Lapham’s Money and Class in America distinguishes the meaning of success and the requirements for respect from Americans to that of other strong societies. In his essay he defends that Americans show respect for those with a high economic status while other nations feel art and intellect are warrant for respect. With this, he agrees with Henry Adams that Americans are greatly materialistic in the sense that they try to find “success” in wealth because they have been “deflected by the pursuit of money”. Though the idea that Americans favor and respect a high economic status is true, Lapham’s claim that they do so because they are socially forced to is not accurate because they still have the ability to make a choice.…

    • 359 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Spectator

    • 1338 Words
    • 6 Pages

    It is with much Satisfaction that I hear this great City inquiring Day by Day after these my Papers, and receiving my Morning Lectures with a becoming Seriousness and Attention. My Publisher tells me, that there are already Three Thousand of them distributed every Day: So that if I allow Twenty Readers to every Paper, which I look upon as a modest Computation, I may reckon about Threescore thousand Disciples in _London_ and _Westminster_, who I hope will take care to distinguish themselves from the thoughtless Herd of their ignorant and unattentive Brethren. Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their account in the Speculation of the Day. And to the End that their Virtue and Discretion may not be short transient intermitting Starts of Thought, I have resolved to refresh their Memories from Day to Day, till I have recovered them out of that desperate State of Vice and Folly, into which the Age is fallen. The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. It was said of _Socrates_, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.…

    • 1338 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics