Happy Birthday, C. S. Lewis
11/29/2004 00:15 Filed in: Books & Literature
He would have been 106 if alive today...
Happy birthday to C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
When I was in college, I was practically obsessed with C. S. Lewis. My goal was to read everything he wrote (something I gave up a long time ago). I read so much Lewis back then that I often got marked off in term papers for using British spellings (favour instead of favor, analyse instead of analyze, etc.). For the longest time, beginning in college and even into my first year or two in seminary, I managed to use at least one Lewis quotation in every paper I wrote. But that got a bit old, if not forced after a while.
C. S. Lewis died on November 23, 1963 which just so happened to be the same day that John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) also died. A few years ago Peter Kreeft wrote a fictionalized account of the conversation of the three on the other side while they waited to stand before God. The book is entitled, Between Heaven and Hell . It makes for a pretty good read on the differences in worldviews of Lewis, Huxley, and Kennedy.
By the way, Perry Bramlett, one of the world's foremost experts on all-things-Lewis, lives right here in Louisville, Kentucky. He speaks year-round at churches and literary groups around the country. If you would like information about his ministry or want to consider booking him for an event, check out his website .
Celebrate C. S. Lewis' birthday by reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to your child or even to yourself. He would like that. Read (or reread) Mere Christianity or The Screwtape Letters. Or if nothing else, insert Shadowlands into the DVD player for a pretty good Hollywood adaptation of the latter part of Lewis' life.
I wonder what other notable people were born on November 29?
When I was in college, I was practically obsessed with C. S. Lewis. My goal was to read everything he wrote (something I gave up a long time ago). I read so much Lewis back then that I often got marked off in term papers for using British spellings (favour instead of favor, analyse instead of analyze, etc.). For the longest time, beginning in college and even into my first year or two in seminary, I managed to use at least one Lewis quotation in every paper I wrote. But that got a bit old, if not forced after a while.
C. S. Lewis died on November 23, 1963 which just so happened to be the same day that John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) also died. A few years ago Peter Kreeft wrote a fictionalized account of the conversation of the three on the other side while they waited to stand before God. The book is entitled, Between Heaven and Hell . It makes for a pretty good read on the differences in worldviews of Lewis, Huxley, and Kennedy.
By the way, Perry Bramlett, one of the world's foremost experts on all-things-Lewis, lives right here in Louisville, Kentucky. He speaks year-round at churches and literary groups around the country. If you would like information about his ministry or want to consider booking him for an event, check out his website .
Celebrate C. S. Lewis' birthday by reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to your child or even to yourself. He would like that. Read (or reread) Mere Christianity or The Screwtape Letters. Or if nothing else, insert Shadowlands into the DVD player for a pretty good Hollywood adaptation of the latter part of Lewis' life.
I wonder what other notable people were born on November 29?