XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 6 Oct 2005 09:15:09 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> I read "Mere Christianity" once, a long time ago, but I think that   
   >>>> Lewis managed to communicate Christianity better in his fiction than   
   >>>> in his overtly theological works.   
   >>>   
   >>>Both would have been banned and/or burned at one time.   
   >>   
   >> And possibly have been. But what has that to do with your wardrobe   
   >> land?   
   >   
   >I thought it would be obvious. M.C. does not support or oppose freedom of   
   >speech and conscience. It is silent again, while remaining eloquent on   
   >whether Christ's miracles literally happened.   
      
   By MC do you mean the book or the concept?   
      
   Are you saying that the book would be banned in your imaginary land where the   
   concept is practised?   
      
   If so, why?   
      
   If not, then what ARE you trying to say?   
      
      
   >>>> For what it's worth, he did write a book on the kind of subject   
   >>>> suggested by this thread -- "The great divorce".   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So perhaps if we want to get real, we should be discussing that.   
   >>>   
   >>>Discussing an allegory is getting real?   
   >>   
   >> As real as discussing your imaginary land beyond the wardrobes, and in   
   >> fact more real, because it's based on Lewis's own idea of "mere   
   >> Christianity", and not ideas of "mere Christianity" that others may   
   >> attribute to him.   
   >   
   >But the discussion of G.D. would again be conducted by interpreters of   
   >Lewis, not Lewis himself. No-one's told me yet whether they think M.C.   
   >dove underground with Constantine and re-emerged with the Quakers. And   
   >was St Paul a M.C.?   
      
   So are Constantine and the Quakers (which ones? Richard Nixon?) in your   
   imaginary land?   
      
      
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