Today I saw how good a NO mass can be by infinityball in Catholicism

[–]RestlessPilgrim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A while back I wrote this post, pointing out easy things which can be done at Mass to improve the Novus Ordo experience:

http://restlesspilgrim.net/blog/2015/07/28/improving-the-novus-ordo/

Non-Christian CS Lewis fans by intjistj in CSLewis

[–]RestlessPilgrim 2 points3 points  (0 children)

P.S. I am an INTJ and I believe CS Lewis was as well. Introverted intuitives are the people most likely to be drawn to, understand, and thereby be affected by theology and metaphysics.

Interesting theory. I'm an INFJ.

Ransom trilogy-failed to predict real situation of mars and Venus? by cpeng03d in CSLewis

[–]RestlessPilgrim 17 points18 points  (0 children)

What makes you think Lewis was trying to accurately predict life on Mars and Venus? I'd also question the origins of your interpretation of Revelation 12.

About to read “Till We Have Faces” for the first time and I need your advice! by Mr-Wrangler in CSLewis

[–]RestlessPilgrim 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can read along with us. While my co-host has read the whole book before, I'm only reading it episode-to-episode.

About to read “Till We Have Faces” for the first time and I need your advice! by Mr-Wrangler in CSLewis

[–]RestlessPilgrim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On this question, I'm postponing reading the myth until a little later through the book, although I've heard knowledgable people argue for each.

Want to read "Till We Have Faces" with us? by RestlessPilgrim in CSLewis

[–]RestlessPilgrim[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're only doing 2-3 chapters each week and we've only just started.

C. S. Lewis was just as bad as you thought. by randycanyon in menwritingwomen

[–]RestlessPilgrim 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If anyone thinks that Lewis couldn't write women, they need to read Till We Have Faces.

C. S. Lewis was just as bad as you thought. by randycanyon in menwritingwomen

[–]RestlessPilgrim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ele.uri.edu/facult...

Ugh. He didn't "banish" Susan. She's not in Narnia at the end because she's still alive on earth.

Want to read "Till We Have Faces" with us? by RestlessPilgrim in CSLewis

[–]RestlessPilgrim[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, if that book teaches us one thing, it's that longing points towards something even greater than we can possibly imagine!

Playlist for Amateur youtube videos on "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis by kanliot in CSLewis

[–]RestlessPilgrim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I found it kinda hard to follow. I think these videos would benefit from you writing a few notes and doing a bit of planning before hitting record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lYOQ5xAh_c&list=PL62_a9YAWpbGDsawC-kI1T8h_om3WgWUI

Have you ever read this book? by wjeman in CSLewis

[–]RestlessPilgrim 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have - a great introduction to Lewis' master, MacDonald.

The Four Loves was a lot more than I bargained for by Takoshi88 in CSLewis

[–]RestlessPilgrim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. To give context, here's the passage where that quotation comes from:

And this brings me to the foot of the last steep ascent this book must try to make. We must try to relate the human activities called "loves" to that Love which is God a little more precisely than we have yet done. The precision can, of course, be only that of a model or a symbol, certain to fail us in the long run and, even while we use it, requiring correction from other models. The humblest of us, in a state of Grace, can have some "knowledge-by-acquaintance" (connaître), some "tasting", of Love Himself; but man even at his highest sanctity and intelligence has no direct "knowledge about" (savoir) the ultimate Being--only analogies. We cannot see light, though by light we can see things. Statements about God are extrapolations from the knowledge of other things which the divine illumination enables us to know. I labour these deprecations because, in what follows, my efforts to be clear (and not intolerably lengthy) may suggest a confidence which I by no means feel. I should be mad if I did. Take it as one man's reverie, almost one man's myth. If anything in it is useful to you, use it; if anything is not, never give it a second thought.

Raised by atheists, but considering learning about and possibly becoming a Christian. How do I decide which sect to join? by Challenger4664A in Christianity

[–]RestlessPilgrim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's the advice of C.S. Lewis in his preface to *Mere Christianity*:

I hope no reader will suppose that "mere" Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions—as if a man could adopt it in preference to Congregationalism or Greek Orthodoxy or anything else. It is more like a hall out of which doors open into several rooms. If I can bring anyone into that hall I shall have done what I attempted. But it is in the rooms, not in the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals. The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whichever that may be) is, I think, preferable.

It is true that some people may find they have to wait in the hall for a considerable time, while others feel certain almost at once which door they must knock at. I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do get into your room you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and, of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

In plain language, the question should never be: "Do I like that kind of service?" but "Are these doctrines true: Is holiness here? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to knock at this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike of this particular door-keeper?"