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C. S. Lewis

Joe Rigney’s Seven Interactive Talks on The Chronicles of Narnia

September 1, 2021 by Andy Naselli

Joe Rigney recently gave seven interactive talks for the C. S. Lewis Institute on each book in C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia.

Rigney is the author of Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis’ Chronicles (2013) and Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God (2018).

As I’ve said before, Rigney is gifted at communicating in a clear, articulate, and compelling way. He is one of the few people I enjoy listening to talk about anything—whatever the topic—because he is consistently interesting, thought-provoking, and edifying. These seven teachings and discussions are no exception:

1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

2. Prince Caspian

3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

4. The Silver Chair

5. The Horse and His Boy

6. The Magician’s Nephew

7. The Last Battle

Related: Ten Narnia Resources

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: C. S. Lewis, Joe Rigney

8 Videos from the Theologians on the Christian Life Conference

April 26, 2018 by Andy Naselli

On April 20–21, Bethlehem College & Seminary (my school) and Crossway (my favorite publisher) cohosted the Theologians on the Christian Life Conference.

Steve Nichols and Justin Taylor edit the Theologians on the Christian Life series that Crossway has published since 2012. The series is historically informed and warmly devotional.

Here are eight videos from the conference:

1. Justin Taylor Interviews John Piper

[Read more…] about 8 Videos from the Theologians on the Christian Life Conference

Filed Under: Historical Theology Tagged With: C. S. Lewis, Charles Spurgeon, Dane Ortlund, J. I. Packer, Jason Meyer, Joe Rigney, John Piper, Jonathan Edwards, Justin Taylor

A Biography of a Book: Marsden on C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity

September 27, 2016 by Andy Naselli

MarsdenIt was a pleasure reading this biography of a book:

Marsden, George M. C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography. Lives of Great Religious Books. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.

If you haven’t read Mere Christianity, then I suggest you start with this dramatized audiobook. [Read more…] about A Biography of a Book: Marsden on C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity

Filed Under: Historical Theology Tagged With: C. S. Lewis

The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis

March 29, 2016 by Andy Naselli

3volsI recently finished reading about 3,200 letters that C. S. Lewis wrote:

C. S. Lewis. The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis. Edited by Walter Hooper. 3 vols. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004–2007. 4,064 pp.

Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905–1931 (1072 pp.)

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Volume 2: Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931–1949 (1152 pp.)

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Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950–1963 (1840 pp.)

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Highly recommended. What a delightful, insightful man. [Read more…] about The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis

Filed Under: Historical Theology Tagged With: C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis on His Church’s Hymns: “fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music”

October 16, 2015 by Andy Naselli

“Is attendance at a place of worship or membership with a Christian community necessary to a Christian way of life?” The way C. S. Lewis answers that question could be far more compelling, but what strikes me is how he describes the hymns of his day and how he responded.

Assignment: Apply the bold words below to your own context. (This is from C. S. Lewis, “Answers to Questions on Christianity,” in God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, ed. Walter Hooper [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970], 51–52, bold added.)

That’s a question which I cannot answer. My own experience is that when I first became a Christian, about fourteen years ago, I thought that I could do it on my own, by retiring to my rooms and reading theology, and I wouldn’t go to the churches and Gospel Halls; and then later I found that it was the only way of flying your flag; and, of course, I found that this meant being a target. It is extraordinary how inconvenient to your family it becomes for you to get up early to go to Church. It doesn’t matter so much if you get up early for anything else, but if you get up early to go to Church it’s very selfish of you and you upset the house. If there is anything in the teaching of the New Testament which is in the nature of a command, it is that you are obliged to take the Sacrament [footnote quotes John 6:53–54], and you can’t do it without going to Church. I disliked very much their hymns, which I considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music. But as I went on I saw the great merit of it. I came up against different people of quite different outlooks and different education, and then gradually my conceit just began peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and benefit by an old saint in elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then you realize that you aren’t fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your solitary conceit. It is not for me to lay down laws, as I am only a layman, and I don’t know much.

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: C. S. Lewis, Music

C. S. Lewis Collection (30 vols.)

January 2, 2015 by Andy Naselli

lewisVery good news: Today Logos Bible Software put their 30-volume C. S. Lewis Collection on pre-pub.

Coming soon.

Recommendation: Pre-order it now. (1) You’ll lock in a better price, and (2) it will help the collection release sooner.

This 2-minute video explains how Logos pre-pub works:

Update (3/23/2015): I’ve added this new collection to my Logos library, and I just added each book one by one to my Zotero library. Love it.

Even if you already own some or all of these volumes in print or another format, you should seriously consider getting them for Logos. Its powerful search engine, specialized resource tagging, multi-platform apps and syncing, integration into an interconnected digital library, and notes and highlighting tools add significant value to the content.

Learn more here and in this video:

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: C. S. Lewis, Logos Bible Software

C. S. Lewis: What Christmas Means to Me

November 29, 2014 by Andy Naselli

This short essay by C. S. Lewis originally appeared in Twentieth Century 162 (December 1957): 517–18, reprinted in God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (ed. Walter Hooper; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014), 338–40.

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Three things go by the name of Christmas. One is a religious festival. This is important and obligatory for Christians; but as it can be of no interest to anyone else, I shall naturally say no more about it here. The second (it has complex historical connections with the first, but we needn’t go into them) is a popular holiday, an occasion for merry-making and hospitality. If it were my business to have a ‘view’ on this, I should say that I much approve of merry-making. But what I approve of much more is everybody minding his own business. I see no reason why I should volunteer views as to how other people should spend their own money in their own leisure among their own friends. It is highly probable that they want my advice on such matters as little as I want theirs. But the third thing called Christmas is unfortunately everyone’s business. [Read more…] about C. S. Lewis: What Christmas Means to Me

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis at War: The Dramatic Story Behind Mere Christianity

January 2, 2014 by Andy Naselli

warFocus on the Family Radio Theatre has done it again: they’ve produced another first-class audio drama.

This one is titled C. S. Lewis at War: The Dramatic Story Behind Mere Christianity.

It’s only 2.5-hours long, and the time goes by very quickly.

It also comes with an unabridged audiobook of Mere Christianity (~7.25 hours).

2-minute video: [Read more…] about C. S. Lewis at War: The Dramatic Story Behind Mere Christianity

Filed Under: Historical Theology Tagged With: C. S. Lewis, Radio Theatre

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