As Often occurs, I clumsily grasp for Deeper Understanding and clarification in searching UA-cam. Associated with my newly acquired zeal for exploring "Apologetics", as a means to reaching and Positively Intriguing, if not outrightly Converting, these recent generations, specifically my own young adult children. I THANK You for these posts! I Pray, they will help me shine the light of our Savior JESUS into thier Worldly Bombarded Hearts and minds. I can, in this case thank algorithms for putting these writings in my field of veiw. However, Moreover, I believe the Spirit of the Lord works for the good and for His Glory in all the lives of those of us whom are called Children of God, and who "Humble Themselves and Pray". I type all of that, probably grammatically horrible, to say THANK YOU! God Bless You and Your Efforts!
Godbless C.S.Lewis! An apologetic/evangelistic before its time, some may even say prophetic! But most certainly an erudite, analytical & logical thinker, of the highest quality. And also one of the finest English bread, and educated examples of all time. Not even mentioning his fiction works! Bravo C.S.Lewis. bravo 👏 W.A.Cook.from England 🇬🇧
Absolutely marvelous. CS Lewis did a perfect impression of writing in the style of Herodotus, and this narrator is just perfect. Thank you for this and have a very Merry Christmas!
Hahahahaha I LOVE YOU HAHAHAHA I said the same thing in preaching session was doing and said hmmm I probably should get back to work and just not worry about it.... HELLLLOOOO WORLD WHAT HAVE WE BEEN LEARNING ????? much love God Bless you brother 😊
If you prefer Mere Christianity, I humbly suggest reading The Abolition of Man for style or God in the Dock for content. If you liked Screwtape better, I'd point towards The Great Divorce. You already started with some of his best!
This is very interesting... I remember as a boy being subjected to the idea that ALL that mattered was 'culture'. If one was 'cultured', one would 'automatically' be a good man. As for being a saint, well that was comprised in the all-encompassing notion of being a 'gentleman'. You see, if you were 'cultured', you would not only automatically be a good man but also a gentleman - one could eventually get away with having a mistress without falling from grace but that's another topic altogether. Needless to say, we weren't churchgoers and 'culture' had become an idol in my family circle. Having said this, 'bourgeois' (Christian) culture does have its place as an adjuvant to good morals but should never be considered as an end in itself nor as a replacement for the Sacraments...
As for Lewis' approach of this subject, that 'intellectual and æsthetic activity signifies nothing if there is no heavenly life in you', I totally agree with him. His description of the christian view on culture, however, is somewhat meagre. It can not be denied that there is a trend in Scripture that is opposed to certain expressions of culture. Lewis' NT-examples might be easily supplemented with several from the OT: the tower of Babel, the multi-colored coat of Joseph, Samuel's resistance against the call for a king, the renunciation of Daniel and his friends from the food of Nebuchadnezzar, etc. However, this doesn't mean that Scripture considers culture as something negative. Rather, making the earth habitable is a divine command: Adam is put in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and guard it (Gen.2,15); and doing this with the sweat on his face (Gen.3,19), is his fate after the Fall. Nevertheless, that's a grace of God: by working with our physical, intellectual and æsthetic abilities we can make our life liveable. That's why David is playing an harp to refresh king Saul, Solomon is building a splendid temple, and priest and prophets are writing carefully composed prose and poetry, inspired by examples from neighbouring nations (Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Song of Songs, Ps.119, etc.). Products of other cultures, to honour the Eternity. It's exactly how it goes in the tale that Lewis is mentioning: that of the Magi. The story is referring to Ps.72,10, where kings from Tarshish and of Sheba are offering gifts to a Messianic Prince; and it is pointing forward to Rev.21,25f, where the kings of the earth bring their glory and honour into the New Jerusalem. Culture can of course, as Lewis puts it (his essay was written 1940), become very harmful. According to Scripture it already went so in the beginning: God saw the wickedness on the earth and repented He had made man (Gen.6,5f). Yet we may not forget that His Spirit is still striving with people (Gen.6,3), encouraging them to do what is right (Rom.1:20f), and is filling them (Ex.35,31), to free sparks of the great light, that is hidden in all creation and in every human life.
I liked the talk of "Good" and "Bad". Is there Good which is Bad, or Bad which is Good? All Good Will not be Grown from. Was the "Act" Good, or was the "Result" Good? The results often place your mind within a situation where you feel accomplishment that doesn't actually aid Growth. It can aid laziness instead, depending on "What" was acquired, by "What exact Work". And "Which" are you "Praising"? The "Work"? Or possibly the "Result"? And what will such self praise get me? What is the result on my self? But can't we always learn easily from "Bad"? Is this "Good"? Should we hope for the "Bad", that we more easily "Grow" with less needed Thought? Would such an entire life be considered "Good" or "Bad"? "Good" if it was "Bad", and "Bad" if it was "Good"? What do we "Desire"? As we decide upon this, doesn't the CONFUSING cycle just continue? And keep setting us up with the EXACT same "Question"?
Random strain of thought work with me. Could we as mankind be using culture to distract ourselves from our true purpose??? For example if we put all of our brains together in a sort of hive mind block chain of different perspectives and simply dug into the Bible as a people what would happen?
I think we all carry our "cultures" around with us regardless. They help to determine how we interpret what we experience. Even someone from a non-literate background with elaborate ritual and a rich orature may be said to be "cultured", but possibly not according to early-to-mid 20th century Western criteria.
unsure what exactly he is defining as culture here in this discussion seemingly it is just entertainment, and not things like language, architecture, food, tools, festivals, philosophy etc.
Actually jesus the moment born in a manger knew who his Father, that's why his disciples also did recognise thus a promised Christ as their great teacher, finally so he's led followers into the Godly Spirit's protection as guidance helping on their Mission entrusted them. I am able to understand it now why three ways relational confirming the Trinity's Infants phase, Youth phase and Adults phase from what he kept on teaching each one about him till next Pauline's phase I am also clear his entire life dedicated become like Jesus & a Slave to Master's splendid works as Holy Spirit's which nobody else could do for Greco Romans and rest of us?! Why because Jesus said Be like a child, St Paul told Don't be like a Child!? Son of God always behaved like One enjoying lilies in field and sorrowful of falling sparrow hoping His Father's all knowing Person, just as People mature St Paul's wanted his Church members to remember while an innocent child has it's side guardian Angels around until when its grown up leading to Devil's den thinking like a Pro able defeating It..
Abrahamic religions in Jesus's times by harkening back two Millennia and we doing the same but nothings else to ritualistic adherence won't interest atleast Daniel & Esther entertain you.
This strangely is in line with George Bataille theory that all literature is complicent with evil, that without it there is no drama and thus no interest, so evil is inherent within anything we amuse ourselves and only by acknowledging this reliance can literature communicate fully and intensely. Perhaps the apple in the garden was the just first instance of a Mcguffen.
As much as I have loved C.S. as I've have grown in "wisdom and knowledge of the understanding of God" it is sad to see NOW his legalistic understanding of religious Christianity. He has not "rightly divided the word of truth" in that he states the "task" man has been given "is righteousness. " A task is something we must continue to work. A saint in the Body of Christ saved under God's Gospel of grace 1 Cor 15:1-4. BELIEVING CHRIST DIED WAS BURIED AND RESURRECTED FOR OUR SINS." nOT the GOSPEL OF THR KINGDOM--Jesus, John the Baptist, Peter and the Disciples preached under the Law. The Apostle of the Gentiles, PAUL preaches Christ crucified, and the dispensation of God's Grace previously hidden until Christ reveals it to him, after his conversion Gal 1:11, 12. Eph 3:2. Matthee- Luke is Old Testament and under the Law which Jesus adhered to and taught as He walked the earth those 3 1/2 years of His ministry. He/they taught "repent be baptized and look for the Kingdom of Heaven." BELIEVE He was thr Christ, the Son of God...much different than what He committed and entrusted Paul to preach...the Gospel that is the power of Salvation unto God for those that BELIEVE. Lewis is still quoting verses and understanding that peryain to requirements of the Law. When we believe the Holy Spirit writes, thru Paul....God gives us His Righteousness. 2 Cor 5:21 God reconciled the world at the time of the Cross 2 Cor 5 ;18 Our ministry is THIS Word of Reconciliation. One is to BLIEVE He did....1 Cor 15:1-4 It is obvious C.S. Lewis' understanding has not been enlightened to the understanding and meaning of Paul's Epistles-- the ACTUAL New Testament....where men are covered by Christ's Vlood not animals....as they were up and through Christ's ministry and as far as 20 years after His death Acts 20:21 where Peter, James and the Jerusalem church are still ZEALOUS FOR THE LAW. Paul writes the Law is dead in ROMANS.
I'd like to respectfully disagree; I don't think that this is what he's saying, or what he believes. Around 6:40, he references Philippians 3:8, in saying that adherence to the Hebrew Law is "muck," and in doing so he voices strong agreement with you on this point at least: that we as Christians are no longer under the law. I don't think that when he says our task is righteousness he means that we must be righteous in order to win God's favor and be saved. Rather, I think that he holds a very biblical view, that we have been saved and filled with the Spirit, so now we are able to begin our task: to act as Christ's body in righteousness and self-giving love. Just because we have been saved does not mean we should stop doing God's will, it simply means that now we are able to. This Idea is one of the core arguments of Paul's letter to the Romans, that although we no longer fear judgement, we should continue to do God's will as an expression of love for Him and for our neighbors. What can righteousness mean if not doing God's will?
Thank you, it is actually a very wrong approach to parcel the Word of God into different and contrasting dispensations, Apostle Paul’s writings are Scripture alright but he wasn’t the first Christian. Before any of the gospels and Epistles were written, men had become Christians based on a perfect understanding of the Old Testament- the Scripture they had.
I'm going to get to heaven and make a beeline to C. S. Lewis to say hi and then be extremely confused when I don't hear him reply in this voice.
That isn’t his voice. Lewis has been home since 1963.
@@jesusbeloved3953 I know; that's why hearing his real voice instead of the voices of those who narrate his work will feel odd!
Go find him reading “The Four Loves” on the CS Lewis Doodles account. It is amazing to hear his real voice read his words!
@@rachelbytheriver CS Lewis delivers wartime radio address to the nation ua-cam.com/video/JHxs3gdtV8A/v-deo.html
Perhaps the two of you and this voice actor can hang out one afternoon
As Often occurs, I clumsily grasp for Deeper Understanding and clarification in searching UA-cam.
Associated with my newly acquired zeal for exploring "Apologetics", as a means to reaching and Positively Intriguing, if not outrightly Converting, these recent generations, specifically my own young adult children. I THANK You for these posts! I Pray, they will help me shine the light of our Savior JESUS into thier Worldly Bombarded Hearts and minds.
I can, in this case thank algorithms for putting these writings in my field of veiw. However, Moreover, I believe the Spirit of the Lord works for the good and for His Glory in all the lives of those of us whom are called Children of God, and who "Humble Themselves and Pray".
I type all of that, probably grammatically horrible, to say THANK YOU! God Bless You and Your Efforts!
It would be an understatement to say, C S Lewis was an intellectual giant of his day.
Godbless C.S.Lewis! An apologetic/evangelistic before its time, some may even say prophetic! But most certainly an erudite, analytical & logical thinker, of the highest quality. And also one of the finest English bread, and educated examples of all time. Not even mentioning his fiction works!
Bravo C.S.Lewis. bravo 👏
W.A.Cook.from England 🇬🇧
Proud export of Northern Ireland 😉
Absolutely marvelous. CS Lewis did a perfect impression of writing in the style of Herodotus, and this narrator is just perfect. Thank you for this and have a very Merry Christmas!
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You know, it’s almost as if all this Jesus stuff might just be really really important
Hahahahaha I LOVE YOU HAHAHAHA I said the same thing in preaching session was doing and said hmmm I probably should get back to work and just not worry about it.... HELLLLOOOO WORLD WHAT HAVE WE BEEN LEARNING ????? much love God Bless you brother 😊
I have read two of his books; Mere Christianity and Screwtape Letters. Thanks Mr C.S. Liews.
If you prefer Mere Christianity, I humbly suggest reading The Abolition of Man for style or God in the Dock for content. If you liked Screwtape better, I'd point towards The Great Divorce.
You already started with some of his best!
Honestly thank you so much for posting these essays
This is very interesting...
I remember as a boy being subjected to the idea that ALL that mattered was 'culture'.
If one was 'cultured', one would 'automatically' be a good man.
As for being a saint, well that was comprised in the all-encompassing notion of being a 'gentleman'.
You see, if you were 'cultured', you would not only automatically be a good man but also a gentleman - one could eventually get away with having a mistress without falling from grace but that's another topic altogether.
Needless to say, we weren't churchgoers and 'culture' had become an idol in my family circle.
Having said this, 'bourgeois' (Christian) culture does have its place as an adjuvant to good morals but should never be considered as an end in itself nor as a replacement for the Sacraments...
thank you SO MUCH for posting these essays!!!!
Yeah
Such a blessing to have these papers.
I fell asleep listening to this and dreamed I was listening to a sermon by a new priest at our FSSP parish and I was super confused lol
00:34 - 1. Christianity and Culture
34:56 - 2. To the editor of 'Theology'
40:50 - 3. Peace Proposals for Br.Every and Mr.Bethell
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (The Gospel)
As for Lewis' approach of this subject, that 'intellectual and æsthetic activity signifies nothing if there is no heavenly life in you', I totally agree with him. His description of the christian view on culture, however, is somewhat meagre.
It can not be denied that there is a trend in Scripture that is opposed to certain expressions of culture. Lewis' NT-examples might be easily supplemented with several from the OT: the tower of Babel, the multi-colored coat of Joseph, Samuel's resistance against the call for a king, the renunciation of Daniel and his friends from the food of Nebuchadnezzar, etc.
However, this doesn't mean that Scripture considers culture as something negative. Rather, making the earth habitable is a divine command: Adam is put in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and guard it (Gen.2,15); and doing this with the sweat on his face (Gen.3,19), is his fate after the Fall. Nevertheless, that's a grace of God: by working with our physical, intellectual and æsthetic abilities we can make our life liveable.
That's why David is playing an harp to refresh king Saul, Solomon is building a splendid temple, and priest and prophets are writing carefully composed prose and poetry, inspired by examples from neighbouring nations (Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Song of Songs, Ps.119, etc.).
Products of other cultures, to honour the Eternity. It's exactly how it goes in the tale that Lewis is mentioning: that of the Magi. The story is referring to Ps.72,10, where kings from Tarshish and of Sheba are offering gifts to a Messianic Prince; and it is pointing forward to Rev.21,25f, where the kings of the earth bring their glory and honour into the New Jerusalem.
Culture can of course, as Lewis puts it (his essay was written 1940), become very harmful. According to Scripture it already went so in the beginning: God saw the wickedness on the earth and repented He had made man (Gen.6,5f). Yet we may not forget that His Spirit is still striving with people (Gen.6,3), encouraging them to do what is right (Rom.1:20f), and is filling them (Ex.35,31), to free sparks of the great light, that is hidden in all creation and in every human life.
I liked the talk of "Good" and "Bad". Is there Good which is Bad, or Bad which is Good? All Good Will not be Grown from. Was the "Act" Good, or was the "Result" Good? The results often place your mind within a situation where you feel accomplishment that doesn't actually aid Growth. It can aid laziness instead, depending on "What" was acquired, by "What exact Work". And "Which" are you "Praising"? The "Work"? Or possibly the "Result"? And what will such self praise get me? What is the result on my self? But can't we always learn easily from "Bad"? Is this "Good"? Should we hope for the "Bad", that we more easily "Grow" with less needed Thought? Would such an entire life be considered "Good" or "Bad"? "Good" if it was "Bad", and "Bad" if it was "Good"? What do we "Desire"? As we decide upon this, doesn't the CONFUSING cycle just continue? And keep setting us up with the EXACT same "Question"?
These are very helpful. Thank you for your efforts in putting this channel and these essays together
Hold on, if you can't have a Christian literature, then what were the Chronicles of Narnia?
And Lewis was extremely fond of George Macdonald's literary output.
Think it was not written yet.
c. 55:02
Where did you get the voice of the elder scrolls oblivion npc?
Random strain of thought work with me. Could we as mankind be using culture to distract ourselves from our true purpose???
For example if we put all of our brains together in a sort of hive mind block chain of different perspectives and simply dug into the Bible as a people what would happen?
I think we all carry our "cultures" around with us regardless. They help to determine how we interpret what we experience. Even someone from a non-literate background with elaborate ritual and a rich orature may be said to be "cultured", but possibly not according to early-to-mid 20th century Western criteria.
What a brilliant guy! RIP.
💘
Thanks for posting this!
So who’s the voice of these if not Lewis himself?
I don't know.
Noo the UA-camr is reading his books and articles out
Ralph Cosham. Follow the Amazon link in the description to the audiobook.
Yes, it's Ralph Cosham. He narrates books about WW2 also. Best narrator ever.
@@Haru23areally well thank you
Good stuff!
Could you make a playlist of these videos in the chronological order Lewis wrote them? TY!
I could, but why?
@@CSLewisessays because it's the original order of release.
But not of relevance
Excellent
unsure what exactly he is defining as culture here in this discussion
seemingly it is just entertainment, and not things like language, architecture, food, tools, festivals, philosophy etc.
Interesting new take!
What's a schizo poster?
Anything over 100 words is a schizo post
way is there an imagine of Aslan in the tabaco smoke from Lewis's lit pipe
why do you think?
Who is the voice of this?
Thank you.
Actually jesus the moment born in a manger knew who his Father, that's why his disciples also did recognise thus a promised Christ as their great teacher, finally so he's led followers into the Godly Spirit's protection as guidance helping on their Mission entrusted them.
I am able to understand it now why three ways relational confirming the Trinity's Infants phase, Youth phase and Adults phase from what he kept on teaching each one about him till next Pauline's phase I am also clear his entire life dedicated become like Jesus & a Slave to Master's splendid works as Holy Spirit's which nobody else could do for Greco Romans and rest of us?!
Why because Jesus said Be like a child, St Paul told Don't be like a Child!? Son of God always behaved like One enjoying lilies in field and sorrowful of falling sparrow hoping His Father's all knowing Person, just as People mature St Paul's wanted his Church members to remember while an innocent child has it's side guardian Angels around until when its grown up leading to Devil's den thinking like a Pro able defeating It..
Abrahamic religions in Jesus's times by harkening back two Millennia and we doing the same but nothings else to ritualistic adherence won't interest atleast Daniel & Esther entertain you.
For anyone who is unsure about their salvation please check out Renee Roland on UA-cam, it really is all about Jesus!!
This strangely is in line with George Bataille theory that all literature is complicent with evil, that without it there is no drama and thus no interest, so evil is inherent within anything we amuse ourselves and only by acknowledging this reliance can literature communicate fully and intensely. Perhaps the apple in the garden was the just first instance of a Mcguffen.
this is so dense
As much as I have loved C.S. as I've have grown in "wisdom and knowledge of the understanding of God" it is sad to see NOW his legalistic understanding of religious Christianity. He has not "rightly divided the word of truth" in that he states the "task" man has been given "is righteousness. "
A task is something we must continue to work. A saint in the Body of Christ saved under God's Gospel of grace 1 Cor 15:1-4. BELIEVING CHRIST DIED WAS BURIED AND RESURRECTED FOR OUR SINS." nOT the GOSPEL OF THR KINGDOM--Jesus, John the Baptist, Peter and the Disciples preached under the Law.
The Apostle of the Gentiles, PAUL preaches Christ crucified, and the dispensation of God's Grace previously hidden until Christ reveals it to him, after his conversion Gal 1:11, 12. Eph 3:2.
Matthee- Luke is Old Testament and under the Law which Jesus adhered to and taught as He walked the earth those 3 1/2 years of His ministry. He/they taught "repent be baptized and look for the Kingdom of Heaven." BELIEVE He was thr Christ, the Son of God...much different than what He committed and entrusted Paul to preach...the Gospel that is the power of Salvation unto God for those that BELIEVE.
Lewis is still quoting verses and understanding that peryain to requirements of the Law.
When we believe the Holy Spirit writes, thru Paul....God gives us His Righteousness.
2 Cor 5:21
God reconciled the world at the time of the Cross 2 Cor 5 ;18
Our ministry is THIS Word of Reconciliation. One is to BLIEVE He did....1 Cor 15:1-4
It is obvious C.S. Lewis' understanding has not been enlightened to the understanding and meaning of Paul's Epistles-- the ACTUAL New Testament....where men are covered by Christ's Vlood not animals....as they were up and through Christ's ministry and as far as 20 years after His death Acts 20:21 where Peter, James and the Jerusalem church are still ZEALOUS FOR THE LAW.
Paul writes the Law is dead in ROMANS.
I'd like to respectfully disagree; I don't think that this is what he's saying, or what he believes. Around 6:40, he references Philippians 3:8, in saying that adherence to the Hebrew Law is "muck," and in doing so he voices strong agreement with you on this point at least: that we as Christians are no longer under the law. I don't think that when he says our task is righteousness he means that we must be righteous in order to win God's favor and be saved. Rather, I think that he holds a very biblical view, that we have been saved and filled with the Spirit, so now we are able to begin our task: to act as Christ's body in righteousness and self-giving love.
Just because we have been saved does not mean we should stop doing God's will, it simply means that now we are able to. This Idea is one of the core arguments of Paul's letter to the Romans, that although we no longer fear judgement, we should continue to do God's will as an expression of love for Him and for our neighbors. What can righteousness mean if not doing God's will?
Thank you, it is actually a very wrong approach to parcel the Word of God into different and contrasting dispensations, Apostle Paul’s writings are Scripture alright but he wasn’t the first Christian. Before any of the gospels and Epistles were written, men had become Christians based on a perfect understanding of the Old Testament- the Scripture they had.