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How to become a theologian

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

For as soon as God’s word takes root and grows in you, the devil will harry you, and will make a real doctor of you, and by his assaults will teach you to...

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On Personhood and Love

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

Professor Haldane himself illustrates the present state of mind very well. He thinks that if one were inventing a language for ‘sinless beings who loved t...

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Solemn Pleasure of the Imagination

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

I am not sure that anyone has satisfactorily explained the keen, lasting, and solemn pleasure which such stories can give. Jung, who went furthest, seems to me ...

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The Prison of the Present Moment

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of ‘escape’. I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very ...

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How to Frighten A Child

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

Those who say that children must not be frightened may mean two things. They may mean (1) that we must not do anything likely to give the child those haunting, ...

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The Spiritual Discipline of Fairy Tales

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

I do not mean that school stories for boys and girls ought not to be written. I am only saying that they are far more liable to become ‘fantasies’ i...

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A Child Again

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up. C.S. Lewis, Other Worlds (1975), 25.

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A Sentence That Stretches Into Eternity

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

The tension (a weak word) between the temporality of sentences and the eternity that would render them and the strivings they portray superfluous is powerfully ...

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Learning to See Through the Eyes of our Forebears

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

Christian classics—such as Athanasius’ treatise On the Incarnation or Augustine’s Confessions—possess the ability to tether us to our collective pas...

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What Matters Supremely

Posted on June 10, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me. I a...

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