“The success of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings helped restore the reputation of these discredited genres, thus enabling moderns to draw on their innocent wisdom.” — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Narnia, held captive by the “post-Christian” Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine army while Susan and Lucy exercise their feminine gifts to wake up the trees from their deep slumber.” — Louis A. Markos Copy Share
“And that is why Lewis concludes that we can shut Jesus up as a lunatic, kill him as a devil, or fall at his… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“the reason God tells us not to judge is that we do not know the raw material that other people are struggling with.” — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Rather than actively love our neighbor, we unselfishly allow him to live whatever way he wants to, even if his life choices are self-destructive. Had Lewis lived today, I think he would have said that the reigning virtue is not unselfishness but tolerance—a pseudo-virtue that also manifests itself, not in active charity, but in a negative acquiescence to the “rights”… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share
“reducing human love, joy, religion, and art to a product of unconscious urges, or economic forces, or the struggle for survival and reproduction, the… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Zeitgeist is a German word that means “spirit of the age.” The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the thought of Socrates), while that of the Middle Ages and Victorianism was hierarchy (Dante) and progress (Tennyson), respectively. As for the darker zeitgeist of modernism, marked by relativism and subjectivism, though Lewis did not embody it, he understood… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share
“We are half-hearted creatures,” writes Lewis, “fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” Heaven promises a… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share
“Lewis closes his book, The Abolition of Man, with these prophetic words: “You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Lewis was no fan of war, but he was unashamed to champion the beauty of the knight, of the medieval Crusader, of the “Christian… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Yes, Lewis concludes, God may at times treat us harshly, but he has never treated us with contempt.” — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“No longer do our beliefs point back to a divine law code or an essential, in-built sense of good and evil; they exist only… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“Actually, if truth be told, love and unselfishness are also received in a radically different way by the object of the proffered charity. In… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
