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God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
C. S. Lewis
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1CONTENTSPreface by Walter Hooper 7 PART II Evil and God 21 2 Miracles 25 3 Dogma and the Universe 38 4 Answers to Questi
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min22MIRACLESI HAVE KNOWN ONLY ONE PERSON IN MY LIFE WHO CLAIMED to have seen aghost. It was awoman; and the interesting thi
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 17 min33DOGMA AND THE UNIVERSEIT IS ACOMMON REPROACH AGAINST CHRISTIANITY THAT ITS dogmas are unchanging, while human knowledge
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 7 min44ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON CHRISTIANITY[The answers to questions printed here were given by Lewis at a`One Man Brains Trus
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 36 min55MYTH BECAME FACTMY FRIEND CORINEUS HAS ADVANCED THE CHARGE THAT none of us are in fact Christians at all. According to
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min66`HORRID RED THINGS'M ANY THEOLOGIANS AND SOME SCIENTISTS ARE NOW READY to proclaim that the nineteenth century `conflic
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min7RELIGION AND SCIENCEMIRACLES', SAID MY FRIEND. 'OH, COME. SCIENCE HAS knocked the bottom out of all that. We know that N
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min88THE LAWS OF NATUREPOOR WOMAN,' SAID MY FRIEND. `ONE HARDLY KNOWS WHAT to say when they talk like that. She thinks her s
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min99THE GRAND MIRACLEO NE IS VERY OFTEN ASKED AT PRESENT WHETHER WE could not have aChristianity stripped, or, as people wh
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 6 min1010CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICSSOME OF YOU ARE PRIESTS AND SOME ARE LEADERS OF youth organizations.' Ihave little right to addre
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 10 min1111WORK AND PRAYEREVEN IF IGRANT YOUR POINT AND ADMIT THAT ANSWERS to prayer are theoretically possible, Ishall still thi
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min1212MAN OR RABBIT?C AN'T YOU LEAD AGOOD LIFE WITHOUT BELIEVING IN Christianity?' This is the question on which Ihave been
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min1313On The Transmission Of Christianity 1
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 6 min1414`Miserable Offenders'An Interpretation Of Prayer Book Languageo Ne Of The Advantages Of Having Awritten And Printed Se
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min1515The Founding Of The Oxford Socratic Club'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 1 min1616Religion Without Dogma?'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 18 min1717SOME THOUGHTSAT FIRST SIGHT NOTHING SEEMS MORE OBVIOUS THAN THAT religious persons should care for the sick; no Christ
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min1818`THE TROUBLE WITH "X"...'I SUPPOSE IMAY ASSUME THAT SEVEN OUT OF TEN OF THOSE who read these lines are in some kind of
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min1919WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF JESUS CHRIST?WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF JESUS CHRIST? THIS IS Aquestion which has, in asense, afran
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min2020The Pains Of Animalsa Problem In Theology'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 11 min2121Is Theism Important?'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min2222REJOINDER TO DR PITTENGERTONE OF THE CHARGES DR NORMAN PITTENGER MAKES in his `Critique' in the October 1 Christian Ce
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 8 min23IDANGERS OF NATIONAL REPENTANCETHE IDEA OF NATIONAL REPENTANCE SEEMS AT FIRST SIGHT to provide such an edifying contrast
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 6 min242TWO WAYS WITH THE SELFSELF-RENUNCIATION IS THOUGHT TO BE, AND INDEED IS, very near the core of Christian ethics. When A
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min253MEDITATION ON THE THIRD COMMANDMENTFROM MANY LETTERS TO The Guardian,' AND FROM MUCH that is printed elsewhere, we lear
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min264On The Reading Of Old Books'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 9 min275TWO LECTURESAND SO', SAID THE LECTURER, `I END WHERE IBEGAN. Evolution, development, the slow struggle upwards and onwa
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min286MEDITATION IN ATOOLSHEDI WAS STANDING TODAY IN THE DARK TOOLSHED. THE SUN was shining outside and through the crack at
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min29SCRAPS1YES,' MY FRIEND SAID. `I DON'T SEE WHY THERE SHOULDN'T be books in Heaven. But you will find that your library in
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min308THE DECLINE OF RELIGIONFROM WHAT ISEE OF JUNIOR OXFORD AT PRESENT IT would be quite easy to draw opposite conclusions a
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min319VIVISECTIONI TIS THE RAREST THING IN THE WORLD TO HEAR ARATIONAL discussion of vivisection. Those who disapprove of it
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min3210MODERN TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLEI TIS POSSIBLE THAT THE READER WHO OPENS THIS VOLUME' on the counter of abookshop may
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min3311PRIESTESSES IN THE CHURCH?I SHOULD LIKE BALLS INFINITELY BETTER', SAID CAROLINE Bingley, `if they were carried on in a
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min3412GOD IN THE DOCKI HAVE BEEN ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES which aman must face in trying to present the Christi
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 1 min3513BEHIND THE SCENESWHEN IWAS TAKEN TO THE THEATRE AS ASMALL BOY what interested me most of all was the stage scenery. Th
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min3614REVIVAL OR DECAY?BUT WOULD YOU DENY', SAID THE HEADMASTER, `THAT there is, here in the West, agreat, even growing, int
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min3715BEFORE WE CAN COMMUNICATEI HAVE BEEN ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT `THE PROBLEM OF COMmunication'; by which my inquirer meant `
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min382FIRST AND SECOND THINGSWHEN IREAD IN Time and Tide ON JUNE 6 [1942] THAT the Germans have selected Hagen in preference
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min393THE SERMON AND THE LUNCHAND SO', SAID THE PREACHER, `THE HOME MUST BE THE foundation of our national life. It is there,
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min404THE HUMANITARIAN THEORY OF PUNISHMENTIN ENGLAND WE HAVE LATELY HAD ACONTROVERSY ABOUT Capital Punishment. Ido not know
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 14 min416WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO METHREE THINGS GO BY THE NAME OF CHRISTMAS. ONE IS Areligious festival. This is important and o
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min42DELINQUENTS IN THE SNOWVOICES 'OFF', OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR, ANNUALLY REmind us (usually at the most inconvenient moment
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min438IS PROGRESS POSSIBLE?WILLING SLAVES OF THE WELFARE STATE[From the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min44LETTERS[Though Ihave reprinted only Lewis's own letters here, Ihave attempted to place them in their context by citing t
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 22 min45Table of ContentsPART IPART IIPART IIIPART IVPreface by Walter HooperI Evil and God2 Miracles3 Dogma and the Universe4 A
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min22MIRACLESI HAVE KNOWN ONLY ONE PERSON IN MY LIFE WHO CLAIMED to have seen aghost. It was awoman; and the interesting thi
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 17 min33DOGMA AND THE UNIVERSEIT IS ACOMMON REPROACH AGAINST CHRISTIANITY THAT ITS dogmas are unchanging, while human knowledge
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 7 min44ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON CHRISTIANITY[The answers to questions printed here were given by Lewis at a`One Man Brains Trus
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 36 min55MYTH BECAME FACTMY FRIEND CORINEUS HAS ADVANCED THE CHARGE THAT none of us are in fact Christians at all. According to
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min66`HORRID RED THINGS'M ANY THEOLOGIANS AND SOME SCIENTISTS ARE NOW READY to proclaim that the nineteenth century `conflic
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min7RELIGION AND SCIENCEMIRACLES', SAID MY FRIEND. 'OH, COME. SCIENCE HAS knocked the bottom out of all that. We know that N
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min88THE LAWS OF NATUREPOOR WOMAN,' SAID MY FRIEND. `ONE HARDLY KNOWS WHAT to say when they talk like that. She thinks her s
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min99THE GRAND MIRACLEO NE IS VERY OFTEN ASKED AT PRESENT WHETHER WE could not have aChristianity stripped, or, as people wh
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 6 min1010CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICSSOME OF YOU ARE PRIESTS AND SOME ARE LEADERS OF youth organizations.' Ihave little right to addre
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 10 min1111WORK AND PRAYEREVEN IF IGRANT YOUR POINT AND ADMIT THAT ANSWERS to prayer are theoretically possible, Ishall still thi
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min1212MAN OR RABBIT?C AN'T YOU LEAD AGOOD LIFE WITHOUT BELIEVING IN Christianity?' This is the question on which Ihave been
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min1313On The Transmission Of Christianity 1
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 6 min1414`Miserable Offenders'An Interpretation Of Prayer Book Languageo Ne Of The Advantages Of Having Awritten And Printed Se
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min1515The Founding Of The Oxford Socratic Club'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 1 min1616Religion Without Dogma?'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 18 min1717SOME THOUGHTSAT FIRST SIGHT NOTHING SEEMS MORE OBVIOUS THAN THAT religious persons should care for the sick; no Christ
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min1818`THE TROUBLE WITH "X"...'I SUPPOSE IMAY ASSUME THAT SEVEN OUT OF TEN OF THOSE who read these lines are in some kind of
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min1919WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF JESUS CHRIST?WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF JESUS CHRIST? THIS IS Aquestion which has, in asense, afran
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min2020The Pains Of Animalsa Problem In Theology'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 11 min2121Is Theism Important?'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min2222REJOINDER TO DR PITTENGERTONE OF THE CHARGES DR NORMAN PITTENGER MAKES in his `Critique' in the October 1 Christian Ce
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 8 min23IDANGERS OF NATIONAL REPENTANCETHE IDEA OF NATIONAL REPENTANCE SEEMS AT FIRST SIGHT to provide such an edifying contrast
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 6 min242TWO WAYS WITH THE SELFSELF-RENUNCIATION IS THOUGHT TO BE, AND INDEED IS, very near the core of Christian ethics. When A
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min253MEDITATION ON THE THIRD COMMANDMENTFROM MANY LETTERS TO The Guardian,' AND FROM MUCH that is printed elsewhere, we lear
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min264On The Reading Of Old Books'
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 9 min275TWO LECTURESAND SO', SAID THE LECTURER, `I END WHERE IBEGAN. Evolution, development, the slow struggle upwards and onwa
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min286MEDITATION IN ATOOLSHEDI WAS STANDING TODAY IN THE DARK TOOLSHED. THE SUN was shining outside and through the crack at
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min29SCRAPS1YES,' MY FRIEND SAID. `I DON'T SEE WHY THERE SHOULDN'T be books in Heaven. But you will find that your library in
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 4 min308THE DECLINE OF RELIGIONFROM WHAT ISEE OF JUNIOR OXFORD AT PRESENT IT would be quite easy to draw opposite conclusions a
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min319VIVISECTIONI TIS THE RAREST THING IN THE WORLD TO HEAR ARATIONAL discussion of vivisection. Those who disapprove of it
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min3210MODERN TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLEI TIS POSSIBLE THAT THE READER WHO OPENS THIS VOLUME' on the counter of abookshop may
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min3311PRIESTESSES IN THE CHURCH?I SHOULD LIKE BALLS INFINITELY BETTER', SAID CAROLINE Bingley, `if they were carried on in a
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min3412GOD IN THE DOCKI HAVE BEEN ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES which aman must face in trying to present the Christi
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 1 min3513BEHIND THE SCENESWHEN IWAS TAKEN TO THE THEATRE AS ASMALL BOY what interested me most of all was the stage scenery. Th
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 5 min3614REVIVAL OR DECAY?BUT WOULD YOU DENY', SAID THE HEADMASTER, `THAT there is, here in the West, agreat, even growing, int
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min3715BEFORE WE CAN COMMUNICATEI HAVE BEEN ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT `THE PROBLEM OF COMmunication'; by which my inquirer meant `
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min382FIRST AND SECOND THINGSWHEN IREAD IN Time and Tide ON JUNE 6 [1942] THAT the Germans have selected Hagen in preference
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min393THE SERMON AND THE LUNCHAND SO', SAID THE PREACHER, `THE HOME MUST BE THE foundation of our national life. It is there,
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min404THE HUMANITARIAN THEORY OF PUNISHMENTIN ENGLAND WE HAVE LATELY HAD ACONTROVERSY ABOUT Capital Punishment. Ido not know
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 14 min416WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO METHREE THINGS GO BY THE NAME OF CHRISTMAS. ONE IS Areligious festival. This is important and o
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min42DELINQUENTS IN THE SNOWVOICES 'OFF', OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR, ANNUALLY REmind us (usually at the most inconvenient moment
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 3 min438IS PROGRESS POSSIBLE?WILLING SLAVES OF THE WELFARE STATE[From the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min44LETTERS[Though Ihave reprinted only Lewis's own letters here, Ihave attempted to place them in their context by citing t
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 22 min45Table of ContentsPART IPART IIPART IIIPART IVPreface by Walter HooperI Evil and God2 Miracles3 Dogma and the Universe4 A
pp. 1–1 · ≈ 2 min
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