1 posted on
12/30/2003 5:36:54 AM PST by
rhema
To: rhema
"The Screwtape Letters, a series of letters from a senior demon to a junior demon."
If you've never read 'The Screwtape Letters', get a copy and read it. Not too long, reads easily, and is one of THE classics of all time. Outstanding.
After you've read it, get a copy of C.S.Lewis' 'Mere Christianity'. All Christians (and non-believers) should read it. Lewis's supreme effort!
2 posted on
12/30/2003 5:44:52 AM PST by
Maria S
("…the end is near…this time, Americans are serious; Bush is not like Clinton." Uday Hussein 4/9/03)
To: ecurbh; HairOfTheDog; xzins; Mudboy Slim
ping
4 posted on
12/30/2003 5:49:09 AM PST by
Corin Stormhands
(Can I exchange this tagline without a receipt?)
To: rhema
He would also write the beloved childrens books The Chronicles of Narnia, Children's books
I have read & enjoyed them throughout the last 35 years. First read when I was 35. As Lewis said - to me of course - in the preface to Lion Witch & Wardrobe you are now old enough to begin.
Thanks for the post, I had not heard it before.
6 posted on
12/30/2003 5:55:04 AM PST by
Dahlseide
(I love Lucy (& Peter & Edmund & Susan but most of all Aslan))
To: shezza
Ping-a-ling-a-ling for LOTR
To: rhema
Bump!
9 posted on
12/30/2003 6:05:49 AM PST by
auboy
(I'm out here on the front lines, sleep in peace tonight–American Soldier–Toby Keith, Chuck Cannon)
To: rhema
A BUMP for two of the greatest authors of the twentieth Century!
13 posted on
12/30/2003 6:19:10 AM PST by
Gritty
To: rhema
Saw The Return of the King yesterday afternoon with my younger boy. Fantastic movie. I loved the whole series which is permeated by the Spirit of Christ. Highly recommended.
14 posted on
12/30/2003 6:24:21 AM PST by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
To: rhema
Lewis's trilogy,
Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength are books I'd also recommend highly. Each stands alone quite well, but taken in series they enhance each other.
Perelandra has the most chilling description of pure evil I've ever read.
Good morals, good stories - C.S. Lewis is well worth your time.
15 posted on
12/30/2003 6:26:27 AM PST by
jimt
To: 2Jedismom; 300winmag; Alkhin; Alouette; ambrose; Anitius Severinus Boethius; artios; AUsome Joy; ...
16 posted on
12/30/2003 7:03:55 AM PST by
ecurbh
To: ibheath
bookmark ping
17 posted on
12/30/2003 7:57:53 AM PST by
ibheath
(Born-again and grateful to God for it.)
To: rhema
Tolkien was a catholic. Catholics don't believe in Millenialism, i.e. that there will be a thousand years of peace with perfect people. I haven't seen that quote before.
Most Catholics believe the millenium is the period of time that started with Christ's saving death, but that the war against evil will last til the end of time...in LOTR there is a quote where Gandalf says there are other threats that will come in the future: we cannot master all the evils of the world, but we only have to chosse what to do with the time we are given...(I don't have time to look up the entire quote, sorry, but Jackson's movie gives the shorter version: you only have to choose what to do with the time we are given.
Tolkien was a pessimist on human's ability to make a perfect world, but believed that the ultimate joy would be found at the end of time, meaning after the end of the world there would be a new world to come, an eternal world without death ("a new heaven and a new earth" is the bible quote)...this is not the same as a milleneum, which is assumed to occur BEFORE christ's return to earth.
20 posted on
12/31/2003 4:54:36 AM PST by
LadyDoc
(liberals only love politically correct poor people)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson