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Life on the Silent Planet: Essays on Christian Living from C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy:
"Really excellent analysis (with some slightly strange ones), but overall really helpful to understand the Ransom trilogy, especially That Hideous Strength. Confirms to me that That Hideous Strength is one of the most important and prophetic works tha"
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Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis:
"MIND BLOWN. Have read this twice and will read many times more. It has opened up so much of Lewis that I had struggled with. It's practically a codex. Cannot recommend more highly for Lewis fans!"
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After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man:
"In order to understand a figure from the past, a good question to ask is, “What was going on in the world when he was twenty?” For Lewis, WW1 was going on, and he was the only survivor of his close friends. It is fair to say that Abolition is a produ"
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“I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope...”
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“Religion comes from a Latin root meaning “to bind,” referring to the bond of obedience that characterizes the life of a member of a religious order. By extension, religion can be thought of as a bond of unity, as a process that “re-ligaments” or “re-ligatures,” tying disparate things back together into one, integrating diverse viewpoints.”
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“One of his closest friends, Owen Barfield, once said of Lewis that “what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything.”12”
― The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
― The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
“No doubt chivalry is a failure, but it is not such a failure as pacifism. Wars (even just wars) inevitably involve evil, but not so much evil as is involved in passively allowing aggressors to have their way.”
― Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
― Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
“Even the chess piece discovered at the start of the story is a chess-knight.”
― The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
― The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
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“Religion comes from a Latin root meaning “to bind,” referring to the bond of obedience that characterizes the life of a member of a religious order. By extension, religion can be thought of as a bond of unity, as a process that “re-ligaments” or “re-ligatures,” tying disparate things back together into one, integrating diverse viewpoints.”
― After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man
― After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man
“I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope...”
― The Shawshank Redemption
― The Shawshank Redemption













































