When C.S. Lewis Predicted Our Doom

The American Conservative ^ | October 31, 2019 | Matt Purple

[jonrick46]

C.S. Lewis Bookmark

[jonrick46]

This describes Gender Reassignment.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Who among us gets to do the subduing and overcoming? In his novel That Hideous Strength, Lewis imagines an answer: the National Institute for Coordinated Experiments, or N.I.C.E.

Walter Hooper reports (on Socrates in the City) that while Lewis thought his best book was Perelandra, his favorite was That Hideous Strength.

[grey_whiskers]

I remember literally quivering with anticipation as I opened That Hideous Strength for the first time in high school. It remained my favorite book for years.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I re-read it five years ago after 25 years and found the first 60 pages to be excruciating. Having just finished OOtSP and Perelandra, I’m raring to go.

[grey_whiskers]

Re-read the foreword, you’ll find out why it was excruciating.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks.

[Bob434]

i liked both books- probably gonna have to reread them now- was a long time ago-

[Bob434]

[[“The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality.]]

That is exactly right, something i tried to say in my diatribe lol- you can’t have civilized without an objective moral code- noone will ever obey the greatest commandment on their own- and chaos and anarchy will result-

[Hebrews 11:6]

Genesis 3 includes about 100 words of dialogue describing Satan's temptation of Eve. Somehow CS Lewis invented 20 PAGES detailing Satan's temptation of the woman in Perelandra, thereby making it the best book I've ever read by far. Enjoy!

[steve86]

“ok, enough thinking for one year!”

I’ll tune in again next year for your 2020 recital. This 2019 rendition was pretty good!

[Bob434]

thanks Steve- just some thoughts as i read through the article- and view what’s going on in the world today- handwriting is on the wall it seems-

[NoCmpromiz]

PFL

[SisterK]

Thank you! What a great find.

[Who is John Galt?]

...“what we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

Not a bad description of the supposed "global warming" emergency...

[KC Burke]

Just to pass along the info. Last year I bought and read “The Fellowship — The Literary Lives of the INKLINGS — JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams” by Philip and Carol Zaleski.

It’s a very detailed history on how their writings fueled their fellowship.

There are some authors speculative opinions about the subjects personal lives that intrude a little but such is expected in scholarly studies where the authors have spent a lifetime studying such interior figures.

[KC Burke]

See my post above.

[SaveFerris]

[“The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality.”]

Yes, that’s what the Democrats think they’re going to accomplish.

Spirit of antichrist from the secular world. They developed their own rules. Regardless of what God has said.

(I traveled back in time, briefly, LOL)