Reflections on God … Man … Life
This is will be my third and final look at connections I see between C. S. Lewis’s thoughts and what Dorothy L. Sayers wrote in her valuable work, The Mind of the Maker. Chapter eight is appropriately entitled “Pentecost,” as it focuses on the power of words to move men. Lewis was a dedicated wordsmith who knew that the right words used at the right time in just the right way, could spark the imagination and jumpstart the mind. Sayers… Read more »
In a previous post, I showed how C. S. Lewis praised Dorothy L. Sayers’s book, The Mind of the Maker, and offered one example. I would like to add to that today with some similarities I see between what Lewis wrote in some of his works and what Sayers wrote in her book. Chapter three, “Idea, Energy, and Power,” develops Sayers’s thesis by showing how any completed work in life starts with an idea in the mind. This correlates nicely… Read more »
I’m constantly re-reading C. S. Lewis books. It had been a while since I read his Reflections on the Psalms, so I took it down from the shelf and gave it another go. This time, as is always the case, something stood out to me that didn’t, to the same extent, in my previous reading. The chapter title “Connivance” leaped off the pages into my world—at least, the world I constantly experience around me, particularly with respect to government and… Read more »
In my last post, I showed how C. S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers first made a connection. I mentioned in passing his reading of her book, The Mind of the Maker. He read it shortly after it was published in 1941 and then wrote a review of it in the journal Theology. He introduces the theme immediately: “The purpose of this book is to throw light both on the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity and on the process whereby… Read more »