“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… — 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… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“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. … — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“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… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“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… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“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
