1 The journey: clues to the meaning of the universe
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1964, 180.
Sartre, Nausea, 157.
Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life. London: Phoenix, 1995, 133.
Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great. New York: Twelve, 2007, 5.
Richard Dawkins, A Devil’s Chaplain. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003, 34.
Max Weber, ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf’, in Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1922, 524–55.
C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy. London: HarperCollins, 2002, 197.
See Alister E. McGrath, C. S. Lewis: A Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013.
C. S. Lewis, Collected Letters Volume One: Family Letters 1905–31, ed. Walter Hooper. London: HarperCollins, 2009.
Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 221–2.
Austin Farrer, ‘The Christian Apologist’, in Light on C. S. Lewis, ed. Jocelyn Gibb. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965, 26.
Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967, 24.
David Brewster, Life of Sir Isaac Newton, new edn, revised W. T. Lynn, London: Tegg, 1875, 303.
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, I.1.1.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. New York: Modern Library, 1992, 335.
Letter to Colette O’Niel, 23 October 1916, The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years 1914–1970. London: Routledge, 2001, 85.
Katharine Tait, My Father Bertrand Russell. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, 189.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. London: HarperCollins, 2002, 135.
Virginia Woolf, ‘A Sketch of the Past’, in Moments of Being, ed. Jeanne Schulkind, 2nd edn. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1985, 72.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking. New York: HarperCollins, 1993, 120.
Lewis, Mere Christianity, 136–7.
Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1982, xlii.
Lewis, Mere Christianity, 21.
Benito Mussolini, Diuturna, 1914–1922: Scritti polemici. Milan: Casa Editrice Imperia, 1924, 376–8. I have translated the Italian term mentalità as ‘ideology’; it can also be translated as ‘mentality’ or ‘intellectual outlook’.
Iris Murdoch, ‘Vision and Choice in Morality’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 30 (1956): 32–58.
Humphrey Carpenter, W. H. Auden: A Biography. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981, 282–3.
G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993, 105.
Plato, Republic, 514a–520a.
2 The map, the lens and the light: making sense of things
John M. Russell, From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997, 173–89.
William James, The Will to Believe. New York: Dover Publications, 1956, 51.
C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 140–1.
Letter to Edward Sackville-West, cited in Michael de-la-Noy, Eddy: The Life of Edward Sackville-West. London: Bodley Head, 1988, 237.
Macbeth, V, 5.
‘The Elixir’, in F. E. Hutchinson, The Works of George Herbert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941, 184.
Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good. London: Routledge, 2001, 82.
C. S. Lewis, ‘Is Theology Poetry?’, in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection. London: Collins, 2000, 21.
G. K. Chesterton, ‘The Return of the Angels’, Daily News, 14 March, 1903.
Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks. London: Oxford University Press, 1970, 147.
3 Words and stories: discovering the deeper significance of faith
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980, vol. 2, 687.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy. New York: Doubleday, 1956, 78.
Alister E. McGrath, C. S. Lewis: A Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013, 335–6.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos? London: Methuen, 1947, 24.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy. New York: Doubleday, 1956, 11.
Dorothy L. Sayers, ‘Creative Mind’, in Unpopular Opinions. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1947, 49.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking. New York: HarperCollins, 1993, 76.
4 The creeds: a public vision of faith
C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy. London: HarperCollins, 2002, 265.
Lewis, Surprised by Joy, 264.
Tertullian, On the Prescription of Heretics, 13. Tertullian hints at Hebrews 1.1–2 in this passage: ‘Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son.’
Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechesis V, 12.
The Martyrdom of Justin, 1.
John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, iii, 4.
C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 137.
C. S. Lewis, ‘On the Reading of Old Books’, in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection. London: HarperCollins, 2001, 440.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos? London: Methuen, 1947, 33.
5 ‘I believe’: stepping into the ‘big picture’
Martin Luther, Great Catechism (1529), III.1.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: A Discussion of Christian Fellowship. New York: Harper & Row, 1954, 28.
C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950, 176–7.
John A. Mackay, A Preface to Christian Theology. London: Nisbet, 1942, 27–53.
Horatius Bonar, The Night of Weeping. New York: Carter, 1864, 164–5.
Cyprian of Carthage, On Mortality, 7, 25.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. London: HarperCollins, 2002, 137.
Jon A. B. Jongeneel, Jesus Christ in World History. New York: Peter Lang, 2009, 94.
Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 177, 8.
Technically, this is known as the ‘retrograde motion’ of the planets, which arises when the earth overtakes the outer planets in the course of its annual orbit of the sun.
Appendix: The Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed
Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England, London: Church House Publishing, 2000, 35.
