God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
C. S. Lewis
Theology
Chapters 45
- CONTENTSPreface by Walter Hooper 7 PART II Evil and God 21 2 Miracles 25 3 Dogma and the Universe 38 4 Answers to Questi ≈ 2 min
- 2MIRACLESI HAVE KNOWN ONLY ONE PERSON IN MY LIFE WHO CLAIMED to have seen aghost. It was awoman; and the interesting thi ≈ 17 min
- 3DOGMA AND THE UNIVERSEIT IS ACOMMON REPROACH AGAINST CHRISTIANITY THAT ITS dogmas are unchanging, while human knowledge ≈ 7 min
- 4ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON CHRISTIANITY[The answers to questions printed here were given by Lewis at a`One Man Brains Trus ≈ 36 min
- 5MYTH BECAME FACTMY FRIEND CORINEUS HAS ADVANCED THE CHARGE THAT none of us are in fact Christians at all. According to ≈ 5 min
- 6`HORRID RED THINGS'M ANY THEOLOGIANS AND SOME SCIENTISTS ARE NOW READY to proclaim that the nineteenth century `conflic ≈ 4 min
- RELIGION AND SCIENCEMIRACLES', SAID MY FRIEND. 'OH, COME. SCIENCE HAS knocked the bottom out of all that. We know that N ≈ 2 min
- 8THE LAWS OF NATUREPOOR WOMAN,' SAID MY FRIEND. `ONE HARDLY KNOWS WHAT to say when they talk like that. She thinks her s ≈ 3 min
- 9THE GRAND MIRACLEO NE IS VERY OFTEN ASKED AT PRESENT WHETHER WE could not have aChristianity stripped, or, as people wh ≈ 6 min
- 10CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICSSOME OF YOU ARE PRIESTS AND SOME ARE LEADERS OF youth organizations.' Ihave little right to addre ≈ 10 min
- 11WORK AND PRAYEREVEN IF IGRANT YOUR POINT AND ADMIT THAT ANSWERS to prayer are theoretically possible, Ishall still thi ≈ 4 min
- 12MAN OR RABBIT?C AN'T YOU LEAD AGOOD LIFE WITHOUT BELIEVING IN Christianity?' This is the question on which Ihave been ≈ 3 min
- 13ON THE TRANSMISSION OF CHRISTIANITY 1 ≈ 6 min
- 14`MISERABLE OFFENDERS'AN INTERPRETATION OF PRAYER BOOK LANGUAGEO NE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF HAVING AWRITTEN AND printed se ≈ 2 min
- 15THE FOUNDING OF THE OXFORD SOCRATIC CLUB' ≈ 1 min
- 16RELIGION WITHOUT DOGMA?' ≈ 18 min
- 17SOME THOUGHTSAT FIRST SIGHT NOTHING SEEMS MORE OBVIOUS THAN THAT religious persons should care for the sick; no Christ ≈ 3 min
- 18`THE TROUBLE WITH "X"...'I SUPPOSE IMAY ASSUME THAT SEVEN OUT OF TEN OF THOSE who read these lines are in some kind of ≈ 3 min
- 19WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF JESUS CHRIST?WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF JESUS CHRIST? THIS IS Aquestion which has, in asense, afran ≈ 5 min
- 20THE PAINS OF ANIMALSA PROBLEM IN THEOLOGY' ≈ 11 min
- 21IS THEISM IMPORTANT?' ≈ 5 min
- 22REJOINDER TO DR PITTENGERTONE OF THE CHARGES DR NORMAN PITTENGER MAKES in his `Critique' in the October 1 Christian Ce ≈ 8 min
- IDANGERS OF NATIONAL REPENTANCETHE IDEA OF NATIONAL REPENTANCE SEEMS AT FIRST SIGHT to provide such an edifying contrast ≈ 6 min
- 2TWO WAYS WITH THE SELFSELF-RENUNCIATION IS THOUGHT TO BE, AND INDEED IS, very near the core of Christian ethics. When A ≈ 4 min
- 3MEDITATION ON THE THIRD COMMANDMENTFROM MANY LETTERS TO The Guardian,' AND FROM MUCH that is printed elsewhere, we lear ≈ 5 min
- 4ON THE READING OF OLD BOOKS' ≈ 9 min
- 5TWO LECTURESAND SO', SAID THE LECTURER, `I END WHERE IBEGAN. Evolution, development, the slow struggle upwards and onwa ≈ 4 min
- 6MEDITATION IN ATOOLSHEDI WAS STANDING TODAY IN THE DARK TOOLSHED. THE SUN was shining outside and through the crack at ≈ 3 min
- SCRAPS1YES,' MY FRIEND SAID. `I DON'T SEE WHY THERE SHOULDN'T be books in Heaven. But you will find that your library in ≈ 4 min
- 8THE DECLINE OF RELIGIONFROM WHAT ISEE OF JUNIOR OXFORD AT PRESENT IT would be quite easy to draw opposite conclusions a ≈ 2 min
- 9VIVISECTIONI TIS THE RAREST THING IN THE WORLD TO HEAR ARATIONAL discussion of vivisection. Those who disapprove of it ≈ 5 min
- 10MODERN TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLEI TIS POSSIBLE THAT THE READER WHO OPENS THIS VOLUME' on the counter of abookshop may ≈ 2 min
- 11PRIESTESSES IN THE CHURCH?I SHOULD LIKE BALLS INFINITELY BETTER', SAID CAROLINE Bingley, `if they were carried on in a ≈ 2 min
- 12GOD IN THE DOCKI HAVE BEEN ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES which aman must face in trying to present the Christi ≈ 1 min
- 13BEHIND THE SCENESWHEN IWAS TAKEN TO THE THEATRE AS ASMALL BOY what interested me most of all was the stage scenery. Th ≈ 5 min
- 14REVIVAL OR DECAY?BUT WOULD YOU DENY', SAID THE HEADMASTER, `THAT there is, here in the West, agreat, even growing, int ≈ 3 min
- 15BEFORE WE CAN COMMUNICATEI HAVE BEEN ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT `THE PROBLEM OF COMmunication'; by which my inquirer meant ` ≈ 2 min
- 2FIRST AND SECOND THINGSWHEN IREAD IN Time and Tide ON JUNE 6 [1942] THAT the Germans have selected Hagen in preference ≈ 3 min
- 3THE SERMON AND THE LUNCHAND SO', SAID THE PREACHER, `THE HOME MUST BE THE foundation of our national life. It is there, ≈ 3 min
- 4THE HUMANITARIAN THEORY OF PUNISHMENTIN ENGLAND WE HAVE LATELY HAD ACONTROVERSY ABOUT Capital Punishment. Ido not know ≈ 14 min
- 6WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO METHREE THINGS GO BY THE NAME OF CHRISTMAS. ONE IS Areligious festival. This is important and o ≈ 2 min
- DELINQUENTS IN THE SNOWVOICES 'OFF', OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR, ANNUALLY REmind us (usually at the most inconvenient moment ≈ 3 min
- 8IS PROGRESS POSSIBLE?WILLING SLAVES OF THE WELFARE STATE[From the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World ≈ 2 min
- LETTERS[Though Ihave reprinted only Lewis's own letters here, Ihave attempted to place them in their context by citing t ≈ 22 min
- Table of ContentsPART IPART IIPART IIIPART IVPreface by Walter HooperI Evil and God2 Miracles3 Dogma and the Universe4 A ≈ 2 min
| Author | C. S. Lewis |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | 1900s |
| Categories | Theology |
| Length | 45 chapters · ≈ 4 h 29 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · EPUB |
