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Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), a British author

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Was C. S. Lewis a "muscular" Christian?

Muscular Christianity is a movement, originating in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with promoting physical health, athleticism, and active evangelism. Many critics say that C. S. Lewis, particularly in his fiction, drew from this…
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What was C.S. Lewis referring to in The Weight of Glory?

I was searching for another, unrelated quote, but I came across this one, and a particular statement intrigued me. The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not IN them, it only…
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What did C.S. Lewis’s think was pity without moral law leading to terror?

In The Problem of Pain Chapter 4 (Human Wickedness), C.S. Lewis says Perhaps my harping on the word ‘kindness’ has already aroused a protest in some readers’ minds. Are we not really an increasingly cruel age? Perhaps we are: but I think we have…
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Where does calling Heaven "My True Country" come from?

I was reading C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity yesterday; in the chapter on Hope, Lewis refers to Heaven and his "True Country". Perhaps it's a coincidence, but there's a Newsboys song with that as a lyric. Is that a Biblical reference or does it…
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C.S. Lewis and Transposition

Is anyone aware of a precedent of C.S. Lewis' Transposition in Christian thought (Transposition is an essay found in The Weight of Glory that describes how richer content can be described in a less rich medium: e.g., how heaven is described using…
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C.S. Lewis Reference: True Myths

DJClayworth answered a question about the meaning of C.S. Lewis description of Christianity as a "true myth." What Lewis text uses the "true myth" terminology?
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Mere Christianity Chapter 7 ("Let's Pretend") Book IV: Reference to Story of Mask

In Mere Christianity Chapter 7 ("Let's Pretend") Book IV, Lewis writes that there is a story about someone who had to wear a mask; a mask which made him look much nicer than he really was. He had to wear it for year. and when he took it off he…
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