CSLewisDoodle | On Obstinacy in Belief by C.S. Lewis Doodle @CSLewisDoodle | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
"There are cases between us where we should all bless those who have not seen & have believed".
This is an illustration of C.S. Lewis' paper that was read to the Oxford Socratic Club in 1955. Notes below...
You can find the paper published most recently in the following book: amazon.com/Screwtape-Proposes-Toast-Lewis-author/dp/0008192537
(0:51) "There are two questions the apologist will naturally ask himself [about his private reading].
(1) Have I been 'keeping up', keeping abreast of recent movements in theology?
(2) Have I stood firm (super monstratas vias) [Jer. 6.16, Eph. 4. 14, 1 Cor. 16.13*]
I want to say emphatically that the second question is far the more important of the two. Our upbringing and the whole atmosphere of the world we live in make it certain that our main temptation will be that of yielding to winds of doctrine, not that of ignoring them. We are not at all likely to be hidebound: we are very likely indeed to be the slaves of fashion..." (Lewis, 'Christian Apologetics').
* 'Thus says the LORD': “Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 6.16 ( biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-16.htm )
"...We should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting..."
Ephesians 4.14 ( biblehub.com/ephesians/4-14.htm )
"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong."
1 Corinthians 16.13 ( biblehub.com/1_corinthians/16-13.htm )
(8:33) Apologia: a formal defense especially of one's beliefs, position or actions.
(20:22) “... But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.’ Now Jesus could *do no mighty work there,* except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marveled because of their unbelief." (Mark 6:4-6, biblehub.com/mark/6-4.htm )
(21:06) Ipso facto: "by the fact itself", which means that a specific phenomenon is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the action in question, instead of being brought about by a previous action.
(21:48) A priori: literally, "from what is earlier."
(26:02) In Vacuo: in a vacuum or in isolation.
(27:25) This was a fire at the French-Canadian Laurier Palace Theatre in Montreal.
(30:38) "...they overcame him [the accuser of our brethren] by the blood of the Lamb and *by the word of their testimony,* and they did not love their lives to the death" ( biblehub.com/revelation/12-11.htm ).
The closing music track is from the Easter musical "The Witness" by Jimmy and Carol Owens: youtube.com/watch?v=kODAQojdfkY&list=PLDA3A01C151ECF610&index=1
"There are cases between us where we should all bless those who have not seen & have believed".
This is an illustration of C.S. Lewis' paper that was read to the Oxford Socratic Club in 1955. Notes below...
You can find the paper published most recently in the following book: amazon.com/Screwtape-Proposes-Toast-Lewis-author/dp/0008192537
(0:51) "There are two questions the apologist will naturally ask himself [about his private reading].
(1) Have I been 'keeping up', keeping abreast of recent movements in theology?
(2) Have I stood firm (super monstratas vias) [Jer. 6.16, Eph. 4. 14, 1 Cor. 16.13*]
I want to say emphatically that the second question is far the more important of the two. Our upbringing and the whole atmosphere of the world we live in make it certain that our main temptation will be that of yielding to winds of doctrine, not that of ignoring them. We are not at all likely to be hidebound: we are very likely indeed to be the slaves of fashion..." (Lewis, 'Christian Apologetics').
* 'Thus says the LORD': “Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 6.16 ( biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-16.htm )
"...We should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting..."
Ephesians 4.14 ( biblehub.com/ephesians/4-14.htm )
"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong."
1 Corinthians 16.13 ( biblehub.com/1_corinthians/16-13.htm )
(8:33) Apologia: a formal defense especially of one's beliefs, position or actions.
(20:22) “... But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.’ Now Jesus could *do no mighty work there,* except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marveled because of their unbelief." (Mark 6:4-6, biblehub.com/mark/6-4.htm )
(21:06) Ipso facto: "by the fact itself", which means that a specific phenomenon is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the action in question, instead of being brought about by a previous action.
(21:48) A priori: literally, "from what is earlier."
(26:02) In Vacuo: in a vacuum or in isolation.
(27:25) This was a fire at the French-Canadian Laurier Palace Theatre in Montreal.
(30:38) "...they overcame him [the accuser of our brethren] by the blood of the Lamb and *by the word of their testimony,* and they did not love their lives to the death" ( biblehub.com/revelation/12-11.htm ).
The closing music track is from the Easter musical "The Witness" by Jimmy and Carol Owens: youtube.com/watch?v=kODAQojdfkY&list=PLDA3A01C151ECF610&index=1
