Law & Disorder
In an argument, “You promised!” appeals to this shared standard.
What is the Moral Law, an objective standard of right and wrong?
Lewis’s image for evil is a good thing that has been this.
What is a good thing spoiled or corrupted?
Name any two of Lewis’s four cardinal virtues.
What is a pair of cardinal virtues, such as prudence and justice?
According to Lewis, these can change while faith remains.
What is feeling or emotion, which can fluctuate while trust remains?
Lewis’s “good infection” describes sharing in whose life?
What is Christ’s life, shared with believers?
Physical laws describe what happens; the Moral Law tells us this.
What is the way we ought to behave, even when we fail?
In Lewis’s invasion image, Christ enters this kind of territory.
What is enemy-occupied territory: a good world disordered by rebellion?
In the fleet analogy, avoiding collisions represents this dimension of morality.
What is the way people treat one another, or social morality?
Lewis says charity may begin with choosing this before affection arrives.
What is acting for another person’s good even before affection arrives?
In “The Obstinate Toy Soldiers,” people resist God’s goal because they prefer this smaller project.
What is limited self-improvement in place of God’s aim of complete transformation?
Two instincts conflict. Explain why neither instinct alone can settle which to follow.
What is a standard that judges and directs competing instincts, rather than an instinct itself?
Contrast Lewis’s Christian account of evil with the pantheist account he critiques.
What is the contrast between real corruption of a good creation and the difficulty of distinguishing good from evil in the pantheism Lewis critiques?
A ship is seaworthy and avoids collisions but heads toward the wrong harbor. Which dimension is missing?
What is the ship’s destination: our relationship with God and ultimate purpose?
In “Let’s Pretend,” why act in obedience before feeling Christlike?
What is sincere, obedient practice that helps form character in dependence on Christ?
Distinguish imitating Jesus from participating in his life.
What is the difference between copying Jesus as an external example and sharing his life within us?
“Morality is only what my society approves.” Give Lewis’s reply.
What is the ability to judge a society’s customs by a standard beyond convention?
Why does Lewis reject “Jesus was merely a great moral teacher”?
What is Lewis’s argument that Jesus’s extraordinary claims rule out “merely a good teacher,” pressing liar, lunatic, or Lord?
A student practices courage in repeated small choices. Why is this more than isolated good deeds?
What is fortitude formed as a habit through repeated choices that shape character?
“Doing right without feeling it makes me a hypocrite.” Distinguish practice from hypocrisy.
What is the difference between sincerely practicing obedience for growth and performing goodness to deceive others?
A strong essay needs a thesis, Lewis evidence, Scripture, and this step connecting evidence to claim.
What is reasoning that explains how evidence from Lewis and Scripture supports the essay’s thesis?
Trace Book I in three steps, then name a question the argument leaves open.
What is the chain from moral awareness to moral failure to a morally concerned Power, leaving our need for forgiveness unresolved?
Name a serious fourth-option objection to the trilemma and a premise that must hold for it to have force.
What is the legend or later-development objection, which questions whether Jesus actually made the claims on which the trilemma depends?
One student resents another’s praise despite earning the same grade. Why is pride competitive, and what opposes it?
What is pride’s desire to be superior to others, opposed by humility before God and neighbor?
Connect faith amid changing feelings to “Let’s Pretend,” and give one biblical connection.
What is trust that persists through shifting feelings and expresses itself in obedient practice, as in James 1:22?
Synthesize the book’s movement from quarrelling to new creation in four linked claims.
What is the progression from the Moral Law and human failure, through the corruption of good and Christ’s rescue, to new life in him?