“Lewis was unique in the academia of his day for championing (along with his good friend, J.R.R. Tolkien) children’s literature and fantasy novels as serious genres deserving serious consideration.” — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“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… — 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
