C. S. Lewis documentary

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  • Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925-1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954-1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
    C. S. Lewis documentary
    2005

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  • @anniefinch6843
    @anniefinch6843 5 місяців тому +4

    I remember reading the Chronicles of Narnia books and I read them all. My favorite book is The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe because it's magical and a little dramatic.

  • @elizaf.9040
    @elizaf.9040 2 роки тому +8

    This is a lovely overview. I took a seminary class on CS Lewis. Thanks so much!

  • @TheArtfulAddict
    @TheArtfulAddict 2 роки тому +8

    That was very interesting, I thoroughly enjoyed watching and learning about the life of C. S. Lewis. Thanks for sharing!

  • @kennyking4980
    @kennyking4980 7 місяців тому +2

    A fascinating background on this brilliant author!

  • @noneofurbusiness5223
    @noneofurbusiness5223 2 роки тому +6

    First time seeing a picture of him in his youth - cute!

  • @stevenclarke2559
    @stevenclarke2559 2 роки тому +3

    another enjoyable documentary . thank you

  • @probro9898
    @probro9898 2 роки тому +31

    I cannot believe how inaccurate this documentary is. Lewis did NOT "settle happily down" at Malvern College. He was utterly miserable there. Malvern life - in Lewis' time - was revolved around sporting rivalry and homosexual affairs between upperclassmen (Bloods) and their juniors (Tarts). Junior boys were treated like slaves by their elders, and could be (quite legally) beaten for any reason or none. Lewis claimed he was more tired there than he was even in the trenches in WW1. He hated it so much that his father withdrew him after just one year and sent him to a private tutor to prepare for Oxford. And another thing - no mention at all of that tutor - William T. Kirkpatrick - who made such an impression on Lewis, and was the inspiration for Mr. McPhee in "That Hideous Strength".

    • @autumn5852
      @autumn5852 2 роки тому +1

      I guess you’re new to the internet and UA-cam because if not, you would know that barely anything on here is accurate ~ you either have to take it all with a pinch of salt or don’t bother coming on here at all - I’m leaning towards the latter - I’ve thoroughly enjoyed UA-cam in the last 6 years but I can feel it’s time to move on, now I’m coming out of my 6 year burn out, but it’s been fun and that’s the attitude you have to have because you can’t rely on any of it to be accurate

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 Рік тому

      The homosexual affairs must have been a balm to many boys so inclined & lonely for their families.

    • @zemox2534
      @zemox2534 Рік тому +1

      ​@@autumn5852 If you want to move on why leave a comment in the first place?

    • @TomorrowWeLive
      @TomorrowWeLive Рік тому +1

      @@mckavitt13 you don't know much about British public schools, do you? Read Lewis's autobiography.

    • @TomorrowWeLive
      @TomorrowWeLive Рік тому

      @@mckavitt13 and inclination had nothing to do with it. The ones who were having it off all turned straight after they grew up. The true homosexuals were mostly celibate

  • @alice86142
    @alice86142 2 роки тому +5

    Amazing. Thank you 🙏

  • @petersanmiguel1164
    @petersanmiguel1164 2 роки тому +4

    Very good. Thank you.

  • @jfmm99
    @jfmm99 2 роки тому +5

    Wonderful! Subscribed!

  • @karaamundson3964
    @karaamundson3964 2 роки тому +2

    I must say, TLTW&TW has always been my favorite, but the TMN is absolutely brilliant as well.
    Some of the others, I do find a little bit questionable on some levels, but they still give delight

  • @rallyeraidr7841
    @rallyeraidr7841 10 місяців тому

    What is especially interesting to me is the book Crowns, by Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock (who also penned The Far Distant Oxus books). Crowns was published 4 years before to the Lion, The witch and the Wardrobe. Crowns is about four children who play a game in a country house, and find themselves transported from a room into another world where they rule as kings and queens. Does that sound like a familiar plot line?

  • @eliotreader8220
    @eliotreader8220 2 роки тому +3

    so the battles that takes place in the books are based on the life that Lewis lived in the Trenches during WW1
    and Ed being tempted by the fake Queen of Narnia and its never ending winter is meant to be a reference to WW2 and food rationing?
    having lived through the darkness of two years trapped by Covid 19 I guess we can understand how Lucy's friend felt.
    have read nearly all of the books apart from the last Battle.

  • @Fizzwhizz28
    @Fizzwhizz28 2 роки тому +2

    Anyone else see a face among the trees at 6:10? I thought I was imagining it 😂

    • @probro9898
      @probro9898 2 роки тому +1

      Yep - there's a kind of "Green Man" face in the hillside.

    • @autumn5852
      @autumn5852 2 роки тому +1

      No, I can’t even see a tree at 6.10 - I can see a pattern in the hillside that I can imagine is a foxes face but that’s about it

    • @autumn5852
      @autumn5852 2 роки тому

      @@probro9898 … actually yes, I can see that, only in my imagination it looks like the face of a lion and in it’s right eye is what I saw as the face of an animal

    • @lukasmiller486
      @lukasmiller486 4 місяці тому

      It’s in the middle.

  • @mares3841
    @mares3841 2 роки тому

  • @joseacosta1354
    @joseacosta1354 Рік тому +5

    A cynical overview of a decorated soldier who carried shrapnel to his death, a generous friend to contemporaries, a layman who encouraged a nation during the second world war, as well as a great author, who wrote so much more than children's books, ("A Grief Observed," alone would suffice to demonstrate his regard for his wife) and the gossip tinged references to a friends mother were enough to place this effort in to the proverbial dustbin, in my opinion.

    • @kathleena.callahan8511
      @kathleena.callahan8511 Рік тому +3

      Amen to that, plus sexualizing Jadis , of all things. Innocence is sadly lacking in this presentation, and I believe Jack himself would agree. He had promised his friend Paddy he would look after Mrs. Moore if Paddy were killed in action, as indeed Paddy promised in turn to look after Jack's father if he were killed.

  • @chucksolutions4579
    @chucksolutions4579 2 місяці тому

    All right I can’t take it anymore first of all Lewis never once said that do you book should be read as a magicians nephew first he wrote a letter where he understood why a little girl might be confused. But no no no there’s no way Lewis could look at his grandfather as Azlan!!! He’s famous for having said that Azlan was sacred to him he knew when he wrote Azlan who he was talking about and it wasn’t his grandfather regardless of the admiration he might’ve had for the man is a boy Azlan is allegory. I’m having to write this by dictation so I apologize for any misspellings especially for Azlan.

  • @uiPublic
    @uiPublic 5 місяців тому

    How many myths were ever or at least able to be located in all history else change from BC to AD?!

    • @uiPublic
      @uiPublic 5 місяців тому

      Like JFK and JLN who died in another Continents, with CSL they'd all their turning points in '30s Spanish revolution took part by International volunteer and Communists together if on flipside remember started World Flue Pandemics...

    • @uiPublic
      @uiPublic 5 місяців тому

      True Myth as Tree of Life laid behind at Eden center by witch Devil's lie they won't die which wasn't forbidden either except for Angels protected ever after.

  • @mares3841
    @mares3841 2 роки тому

    ❗️

  • @CAM-fq8lv
    @CAM-fq8lv 2 роки тому +4

    The illustrations are really awful.

  • @chrissalazar2396
    @chrissalazar2396 2 роки тому

    Hello first to comment 👍😂

  • @ericadler9680
    @ericadler9680 Рік тому +2

    Things are presented as Lewis's inventions here that he stole from others. The concept of the wells into other worlds in the enchanted forest was taken from William Morris, that of the creation of a world through singing was taken from Tolkien. Immature Christian apologetics tend to idealise Lewis and present him as a modern saint, whereas in reality he was a sexual sadist who disliked non-smokers (not to speak of non-drinkers) and who forced his university students to get drunk against their will at parties, for which reason he was fairly disliked by his students. And Lewis never became a professor at Oxford, but at Cambridge.

    • @johnmulvey5121
      @johnmulvey5121 Рік тому +3

      No one works in a vacuum and every artist ''steals'' from others not least Shakespeare.'Fairly disliked '' is a bit like 'fairly pregnant '
      Lewis was no saint but I have spoken to people who were students of Lewis who loved him . The actor the late Robert Hardy , a student of Lewis loved him.

    • @johnmulvey5121
      @johnmulvey5121 Рік тому

      See below

    • @ericadler9680
      @ericadler9680 Рік тому

      @@johnmulvey5121 Read my comment again and consider the words "immature Christian apologetics".

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 Рік тому

      Ericadler - what a load of crap. Lewis was no saint, you imbecile - he liked a beer and a fag - millions of us did - but he was much loved and a devout Christian - an example to us all.

    • @ericadler9680
      @ericadler9680 Рік тому

      @@matthewstokes1608 Stupid,immature fundamentalist - it makes no sense at all trying to talk to you.

  • @GravesRWFiA
    @GravesRWFiA Рік тому +2

    wow, you really are incompetent. while most of these episodes tells us about the writers and how they grew into it you start by just rehashing the books and doing it out of sequence. The books were published LWW, prince caspian, dawn treader, silver chair, horse and his boy, magicians nephew, last battle. The is the order lewis set them out. it is only revisionists who later want to switch them round to be in the order they occur and miss the point that lewis was setting it up in a certain way, you not only don't address this, you seem to not know it.

  • @fritula6200
    @fritula6200 2 роки тому

    Lewis converted to becoming a Roman Catholic. Yes, he had "faith"... he had the "whole Truth", not part of it.

    • @bridgetmccarthy4689
      @bridgetmccarthy4689 2 роки тому +4

      He did not become a Catholic.

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 Рік тому

      Lewis converted to Christianity from atheism.

    • @probro9898
      @probro9898 Рік тому

      @mckavitt13 Not quite true. He became a theist first before he became a Christian. At the time of his famous "lies breathed through silver" talk with Tolkien he already believed in God but had not yet accepted Jesus as his saviour.