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   Steve Hayes to spamtrap@spambouncer.org   
   Re: C.S. Lewis and Fundamentalists   
   19 Feb 15 06:39:45   
   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:40:22 -0800, Catherine Jefferson   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2/18/2015 5:57 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> Theological liberalism is based on the idea that the church must adapt   
   >> to the world and current culture, ie the status quo.   
   >>   
   >> As G.K. Chesterton put it, if the vision of heaven is always changing,   
   >> the vision of earth will always remain exactly the same.   
   >   
   >Chesterton had a knack for stating essential issues in a very few words   
   >that could not be ignored.  He wasn't an inkling, but he influenced most   
   >of them.  C.S. Lewis loved his work.   
   >   
   >Speaking of influences on Lewis and other Inklings, are you familiar   
   >with William Morris's "The Well at the World's End"?   
      
   Yes, I have read it, though I didn't think it compared very well with   
   stuff that the Inklings wrote.   
      
      
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