tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post5573182049705368336..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : C.S. Lewis, Evolution, and AtonementAlice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-63321792732476683012012-01-29T07:56:42.403-08:002012-01-29T07:56:42.403-08:00This message of yours adds very little to CSL'...This message of yours adds very little to CSL's take on Evolution. In 1944, probably, he was still an Evolutionist. We need not presume he reamined so up to the end of his life. We need not presume the contrary either.<br /><br />Have you read his "Burial of a Great Myth"?<br /><br />He knew sufficient about myth memes to know one when he saw one, just as he knew sufficient about mythologic legends to say "not here" when confronted with the gospel.<br /><br />Anyway, his view that the Old Testament contains fabulous elements is in part a hang-over from his non-Christian period and in part his discipleship under a too modern Anglican clergyman: Charles Gore.<br /><br />I have dealt with the supposed fabulosity of Jonah here:<br /><br /><a href="http://hglsfbwritings.blogspot.com/2012/01/jonah-and-mieszko.html" rel="nofollow">Jonah and Mieszko<br />http://hglsfbwritings.blogspot.com/2012/01/jonah-and-mieszko.html</a>Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-23012332527136460852011-06-18T07:48:49.818-07:002011-06-18T07:48:49.818-07:00Interestingly, Lewis' comments about the Atone...Interestingly, Lewis' comments about the Atonement are quite close to the approach taken by Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) in a talk I heard him give at St. Vladimir's Seminary in which he presented five "models" of the Atonement from Scripture with the goal of demonstrating they reveal aspects of a Mystery too great for us to capsulize in one, tidy, formula.<br /><br />I suspect that it is precisely Lewis' preference for looking at the height and depth and breadth of the Mystery of Salvation, rather than the "how it works" that inspires his continuing appeal to (Eastern) Orthodox Christians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-3272896089130785172011-06-15T10:50:57.982-07:002011-06-15T10:50:57.982-07:00Keep in mind that this article appeared as a Creat...Keep in mind that this article appeared as a Creationist website.<br /><br />Probably my favorite C.S. Lewis quote is this: "Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed." --The Case for ChristianityAlice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-86942224197346615192011-06-15T07:55:20.372-07:002011-06-15T07:55:20.372-07:00Difficult to say what the author's point was -...Difficult to say what the author's point was - other than that Lewis wisely avoided inserting his foot in his mouth. As he knew very little about evolutionary theory by his own admission, what difference could his opinion make in any case?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-30084743525312034262011-06-15T07:17:24.862-07:002011-06-15T07:17:24.862-07:00I believe that Lewis is correct -"all Holy Sc...I believe that Lewis is correct -"all Holy Scripture is in some sense — though not all parts of it in the same sense — the Word of God."<br /><br />It is difficult to see how the biblical accounts of political in-fighting in ancient Palestine speak of the God who has been fully revealing in His Son Jesus Christ. These portions are of historical import but not descriptive of God and His plan of salvation.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.com