Tommi Karjalainen’s Reviews > C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet > Status Update
Tommi Karjalainen
is on page 148 of 448
And then Lewis stops from journaling after his conversion to Christianity! McGrath paraphrases Lewis's view on journaling as "narcissistic introspection" (140).
— Jan 15, 2018 01:32AM
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Tommi Karjalainen
is on page 315 of 448
Theory of atonement is secondary to the fact that it works (somehow).
— Jan 30, 2018 12:07AM
Tommi Karjalainen
is on page 204 of 448
McGrath spends quite some time on "Tollers", but thus makes the point that he would never had finished the Lord of the Rings without Lewis' friendship and encouragement. I think there's a lesson to be learned right here.
— Jan 19, 2018 07:20AM
Tommi Karjalainen
is on page 196 of 448
Because of the WW2, "Realism had returned to its throne." (McG 191) - Lewis: "We see unmistakably the sort of universe in which we all have all long been living, and must come to terms with it."
— Jan 18, 2018 06:12AM
Tommi Karjalainen
is on page 178 of 448
"The story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same ways as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened" (149). And then McGrath explains that Lewis's myth language probably comes from Tolkien, meaning, "a myth is a story that conveys 'fundamental things' � in other words, that tries to tell us about the deeper structure of things" (150).
— Jan 16, 2018 07:28AM
Tommi Karjalainen
is on page 94 of 448
Really struck by the importance of journaling.
— Jan 11, 2018 05:01AM
