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Showing posts with label CS Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CS Lewis. Show all posts
Saturday, November 26, 2022

C.S.Lewis: A Very Short Introduction by James Como, Book 41 of 2022

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Sometimes I have a book for a few years, suddenly remember I have it, and read it in a couple of days. That just happened with C.S. Lewis: A...

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding drama by C.S. Lewis, Book 40 of 2022

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  English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding drama by C.S. Lewis The longest book of the more than forty books written by C.S. L...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Spirits in Bondage by C.S. Lewis. Book 29 of 2022

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Spirits in Bondage is the work of a young man, a teenager.  In those years, between ages 15 and 18, C.S. Lewis lived through some of the hi...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis. Book 28 of 2022

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  I re-read this book as a break from reading the intensely analytical translation of the Psalms by Robert Alter. All of Alter's work t...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis: Book 17 of 2022

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I loved Perelandra   by C.S. Lewis when I first read it almost forty years ago. I re-read it in the 90s, but have not re-read it in this ce...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Love Makes Sense: The Four Loves by CS Lewis

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  On Friday, I hope to join the monthly discussion of the New York CS Lewis Society .  The topic is The Four Loves .  I love this book and a...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Books and War: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

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A Tour Bus Ride from Hell to Heaven War gave me faith in 1973 when I was blinded by shrapnel in a missile explosion. War almost took...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, Book 16 of 2016

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C.S. Lewis in 1917 There are two kinds of people in this world:  Those who think prayer is a monologue.  Those who think prayer ...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

For Most Countries, At Most Times, People Looked at Military Service with Dread

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C.S. Lewis , best known for The Chronicles of Narnia  served in World War I in the British Army.  He was a citizen of Northern Ireland an...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Book 11 of 2016: "Underground Man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a chilling portrait of cowardice.

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When I first believed in Christianity, I was in the Army in Germany in the 70s.   The only Church was the Army Chapel system.   So I read...