Franciscan University Presents “Mere Christianity Is Not Enough” With guest, Dr. Regis Martin Free Handout: “The World Beyond the Wardrobe” Article by Regis Martin From Crisismagazine.com On the day C.S. Lewis died—November 22, 1963—the world was hardly in...
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Franciscan University Presents “Mere Christianity Is Not Enough” With guest, Dr. Regis Martin Free Handout: “The World Beyond the Wardrobe” Article by Regis Martin From Crisismagazine.com On the day C.S. Lewis died—November 22, 1963—the world was hardly in a position to take notice. The assassination of an American President, after all, had clearly and shockingly co- opted everything that day, including even the ending of a life unsurpassed for its sheer breath- catching lucidity in defense of ordinary Christian belief. But history, as T.S. Eliot reminds us in Gerontion, is full of “cunning passages, contrived corridors.” We needn’t be surprised, therefore, a half-century later, to find the world increasingly interested in the life and literary remains of this astonishingly gifted apologist for the Christian religion, the least of whose books, by the way, will have blazed more trails of the spirit than a thousand days spent traipsing along the now largely forgotten byways of the Kenned
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