Quotes
This fills in the blank: "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but _____ in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
What is "shouts"?
This author wrote the epigraph for the entire book.
Who is George MacDonald?
This kind of pain is described as less dramatic than physical pain.
What is mental pain?
The book is dedicated to them.
Who are the Inklings?
This one word fills in the blanks: "God commands certain things because they are ____, or whether certain things are ___ because God commands them"
What is "right"?
Shakespeare wrote the following for this play:
"It is required
You do awake your faith. Then all stand still;
Or those that think it is unlawful business
I am about, let them depart."
What is The Winter's Tale?
Lewis describes this as the object that excites a feeling of awe.
What is The Numinous?
This modern invention is mentioned frequently throughout the book as exceptional in its time.
What is chloroform?
This fills in the blank: "The ____ thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands—that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed."
What is "Marxist"?
This author wrote, "Nothing with implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God"
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
This is the Doctrine that Lewis refuses to espouse in Chapters 3 & 4.
What is the Doctrine of Total Depravity?
This animal is said to be the "only normal and unperverted instance" when theorizing about animal resurrection.
What is a sheepdog?
These two words fill in the blanks: "We regard God as an ____ regards his ____; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
What are "airman" and "parachute"?
Lewis quotes this one author twice in his epigraphs.
Who is Shakespeare?
Lewis writes that the doctrine of Hell is not "tolerable" but it is ____.
What is moral?
These are the three elements of all developed religions, according to C.S. Lewis.
What are awe for the Numinous power, consciousness of a moral law, and the belief that morality is dictated by the Numinous?
This is the chapter title from which the quote comes from: "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell"
What is "Divine Goodness"?
This is the main topic of the epigraph from Thomas Traherne.
What is Love?
Lewis expresses that people no longer know that they are "mortally ill." These are the two principal causes of this phenomenon.
What is concentration on virtues and the psychoanalysts (shame)?
Towards the end of the book Lewis uses these two fake names to address the reader directly (need only name one).
What are John Stubbs and Janet Smith?