The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis distilled down in a short discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeLED2F950Q ^ | C.S. Lewis

[Neville Chamberlain]

Cliffs' Notes for conservatives. This isn't your child's C.S. Lewis. If you don't have time to read C.S. Lewis's book, The Abolition of Man, let us distill it down for you.

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[jagusafr]

Just finished it (the book) - tough sledding, but not quite as hard as “Miracles”, and has some really pithy observations.

Colonel, USAFR

[The_Reader_David]

That book, The Abolition of Man, is proof that the Holy Spirit still gives prophetic gifts, and even gives them to those outside the visible bounds of the Church (whether you take the Orthodox or the Latin view of where the Church inheres in these latter days). Ostensibly about what had gone wrong with British education post-WWII, it manages to predict all the social and cultural pathologies that have overtaken Western Civilization since its publication. Not in detail, but then, except when the Holy Spirit had some point in including a detail, the prophecies in the Scriptures aren't very detailed either.

[Sans-Culotte]

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[FreedomProtector]

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[OneWingedShark]

Excellent video; thank you for posting it.

[jocon307]

That was great! What a great post. THANK YOU!

Such good graphics, too many to recount, but I’m glad they included that bit from the movie “Brazil”.

Excellent, ohmigoodness, how excellent.

I did read “Abolition of Man” years ago and our interlocutors are right, it is a very short book. Immediately I put it on my “everyone should read this” list.

Also on that list “the Daughter of Time” (the daughter of time is truth) a lovely book by Josephine Tey. About how Richard III was totally smeared by the MSM of his day, and subsequently.

I’ve actually stolen that recommendation for the Daughter of Time from my friend’s dad. He was one of the biggest liberals you’d ever want to meet. But, he loved Truth. We must preserve the love of Truth, because it does exist. 2 + 2 IS 4, not something more or less depending upon how you feel about it.

My friend’s dad did live into the time when these Roussouians (that’s what I call them) gained hegemony over our discourse. But God loved Bill and he was spared grappling with that by reasons of age, etc., so his head did not need to explode. Because, indeed his head would have exploded over that nonsense.

This vid give me hope, thank you again.

Read ‘em, watch ‘em

God Bless Free Republic, the most excellent site on the WWW, bar none.

[Joe 6-pack]

I need to pick it up and read it again. I've a pretty extensive collection of Lewis's books, and I've found that each re-read exposes me to things I completely missed the first time or two through. I've been through the Chronicles of Narnia four times, as a child, as a teen, as young adult and as a recovering alcoholic. Each time I caught messages and perspectives that spoke to me in a way they hadn't before. Moreover, in spite of Lewis's incredibly wide body of work, his thoughts and views have a rigorous consistency, so for example, one might find a passage in Perelandra that completely reinforces, illustrates and explains a concept communicated in God In The Dock or Screwtape.

His was an amazing mind.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Sincerest thanks for your comments, jocon. We are speaking the same language. I shall check out the book by Tey. If a mind which appreciates Abolition says it’s great, the book is surely in my wheelhouse. Thanks!

[Neville Chamberlain]

Thanks, Joe. It was Lewis who said something like: “you don’t really know a great book at all if you’ve read it only once.”

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Save fer later

[jagusafr]

No question - he’s my favorite of what I would consider the classic 20th-century apologists. If you’ve never listened to “The Screwtape Letters” read by John Cleese, do yourself a favor - it’s an absolute hoot, the “perfect match of man and material”.

BTW, what did you think of the newest movie versions of “Chronicles”? I thought they were very faithful to the books.

Colonel, USAFR

[aruanan]

When I was 19, a missionary in Brazil gave me Miracles to read. My life has never been the same.

[Joe 6-pack]

"...what did you think of the newest movie versions of “Chronicles”? I thought they were very faithful to the books."

When I walked out of the theater after Wardrobe back in 2005, I was in awe. As a general rule, I try to read the book before I see the movie, which of course has been the case with the Narnia films. I was absolutely stunned by how closely the film captured the visuals my mind had generated over the years. The subsequent films, a little less so, but I've enjoyed them nonetheless. Georgie Henley's portrayal of Lucy has been nothing but exquisite...

I've heard a few excerpts of Cleese's Screwtape, and always thought that could be made into a terrific movie (especially now with CGI). I know some in Hollywood have downplayed the interest there might be in a series of letters, but I'm guessing they haven't seen 84 Charing Cross Road (which coincidentally starred Anthony Hopkins, who portrayed Lewis in Shadowlands) :-)

[jocon307]

Thanks Neville, I think you will probably love it.

I won’t say more, although I could go on and on,but let me just say a nice brit detective hero, laid up, and he turns to history to beguile his mind.

And all very well done.

Well, I want to read it again myself!

I lost a lot of books a few years ago in a basement moisture/mold debacle.

Maybe I need to see if I can get it for my kindle!

[Neville Chamberlain]

I never read the children’s stories. I saw the first movie. It wasn’t my thang and we’ve no kids of our own. I thought his sci-fi trilogy (”adult fairy tales”) was spectacular. The Screwtape Letters was one of the best things I ever read.

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