c.s. lewis

[tinpra]

though neither of these were picked up for fun, i just finished reading "Same Sex Partnerships?" by John RW Stott, and i started Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis yesterday while waiting for the doctor

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[nikita31j7a.livejournal.com]

Interesting variety. Any words of wisdom?

[tinpra.livejournal.com]

lol...from them or from me post-reading?

[nikita31j7a.livejournal.com]

Either. LOL

[tinpra.livejournal.com]

I've barely started Mere Christianity but C.S. Lewis is a funny guy. Looking up some random stuff on him, I ran into criticism of his Narnia books. One of which is that it's too religious...that it's Christianity cloaking itself in a children's series. Which it is. It's allegorical. Of course I didn't realize it was an allegory for years, which leads me to believe that ppl who find offense with it in that way were looking for all the Christian imagery. I was just enjoying a book

But back to MC: so far Lewis is making a lot of good common sense points. No big forays into Christendom yet. And interesting to read the way he puts sentences together, jsut from the point of view of being a writer and him being English.

As for "Same-Sex Partnerships?"... On the one hand Stott makes the good point that even though prohibition against homosexuality is only mentioned explicitly twice (I think) in the Old Testament and implicitly a few more times in the New Testament, the Bible does dwell often on how marriage is supposed to work. Anything that deviates from those examples, according to Stott (and I agree) then deviates from God's plan. On the other hand, Stott doesn't come down on whether or not homosexuality is something people are born into or choose to do due to whatever their complicated reasons should be. Of course he may have purposefully not dwelt on that point since the book is about homosexual relationships and not necessarily homosexuality itself. That and it's a right tiny book. It's really focused.

Aaaaaand I don't think I answered your question. lol.

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Rereading this I just realized my first line is unclear. C.S. Lewis is a funny guy, end stop. Above and beyond his wit and humor I looked up some stuff on him...etc and so forth.