This is an illustration of C.S. Lewis’ second talk from his fourth radio series called ‘Beyond Personality: Or First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity’. This became Chapter 2 of Book 4 in his book called ‘Mere Christianity’...You can find the book here: www.amazon.com/Mere-Christiani...
In the book, new chapters were added to the original broadcast talks and some were renamed or extended. See below:
Talk 19 - The Map and the Ocean (Bk 4, Chapter 1 Making and Begetting)
Talk 20 - God in Three Persons (Bk 4, Chapter 2 The Three Personal God).
Talk 21 - The Whole Purpose of the Christian (Bk4, Chapter 3 The Good Infection).
Talk 22 - The Obstinate Tin Soldiers (Bk 4, Chapter 5 )
Talk 23 - Let Us Pretend ( Bk 4, Chapter 7)
Talk 24 - Is Christianity Hard or Easy? (Bk 4, Chapter 8)
Talk 25 - The New Man (Bk 4, Chapter 11)
Bk 4, Chapter 1 - Making and Begetting
Bk 4, Chapter 2 - The Three Personal God
Bk 4, Chapter 3 - The Good Infection
Bk 4, Chapter 4 - Time and Beyond Time (Talk 25)
Bk 4, Chapter 5 - The Obstinate Tin Soldiers
Bk 4, Chapter 6 - Two Notes
Bk 4, Chapter 7 - Let Us Pretend
Bk 4, Chapter 8 - Is Christianity Hard or Easy?
Bk 4, Chapter 9 - Counting the Cost
Bk 4, Chapter 10 - Nice People or New Men
Bk 4, Chapter 11 - The New Man
(5:12) I should probably have drawn a square, a triangle, and a hexagram in Flatland trying to imagine a cube (which to them would look only to be another square) but I chose to depict flat-men in Doodleland, trying to imagine the third dimension in a game instead.
(5:43) "As soon as Jesus was baptised, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” biblehub.com/matthew/3-16.htm
(7:39) "Paul then stood up...said: 'People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD...'" biblehub.com/acts/17-23.htm
(7:44) And standing in the middle, the high priest questioned Jesus, saying, Do you not
answer? Nothing? What do these testify against you? But He was silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned Him, and said to Him, Are you the Christ, the
Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I AM! And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of the heaven. [Psa. 110.1; Dan. 7.13]
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(8:28) The magazine version of this talk had the title and text “Theology - Experimental Knowledge", rather than the updated "Theology - Experimental Science" as it became in the book 'Mere Christianity'. Of course, they mean the same, but I think the first is clearer for me.
(11:53) “In fact, that is just why a vague religion-all about feeling God in nature, and so on-is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic that way, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.” ('Making and Begetting' - • Making and Begetting b... )
“And if, turning aside from the religious attitude, we speak for a moment as mere sociologists, we must admit that history does not encourage us to expect much invigorating power in a minimal religion. Attempts at such a minimal religion are not new - from Akhenaten and Julian the Apostate down to Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the late H. G. Wells. But where are the saints, the consolations, the ecstacies? The greatest of such attempts was that simplification of Jewish and Christian traditions which we call Islam..." (Lewis, Religion without Dogma).
"So far from being the final religious refinement, Pantheism is in fact the permanent natural bent of the human mind; the permanent ordinary level below which man sometimes sinks, under the influence of priestcraft and superstition, but above which his own unaided efforts can never raise him for very long. Platonism and Judaism, and Christianity (which has incorporated both Platonism and Judaism) have proved the only things capable of resisting it. It is the attitude into which the human mind automatically falls when left to itself. No wonder we find it congenial. If ‘religion’ means simply what man says about God, and not what God does about man, then Pantheism almost is religion. And ‘religion’ in that sense has, in the long run, only one really formidable opponent-namely Christianity" (Lewis, ‘Miracles’, Chapter 12 - Christianity and ‘Religion’).
The magazine article shows italics as follows (in capitals): "Though they say that God is BEYOND personality...something LESS then personal, something MORE than a person..."; "Then came a man who claimed to BE God"; and "waiting for him TOGETHER..."
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