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To The Inklings
The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTORY
DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE
DIVINE GOODNESS
HUMAN WICKEDNESS
THE FALL OF MAN
HUMAN PAIN
HUMAN PAIN, CONTINUED
HELL
ANIMAL PAIN
HEAVEN
APPENDIX
About the Author
BOOKS BY C. S. LEWIS
Credits
Copyright
Chapter 22
About the Publisher
1Scale of Perfection, 1, xvi.
1 i.e., never made at the beginnings of a religion. After belief in God has been accepted, ‘theodicies’ explaining, or explaining away, the miseries of life, will naturally appear often enough.
2 XVII, xxii.
3Fasti, III, 296.
4Aen. VII, 172.
5 Fragm. 464. Sidgwick’s edition.
6 Ezekiel 1:18.
7 Genesis 28:17.
8Psalm 11:8
1 The original meaning in Latin may have been ‘power over or in all’. I give what I take to be the current sense.
2 e.g., every good conjuring trick does something which to the audience, with their data and their power of reasoning, seems self-contradictory.
1 Luke 12:57.
2 Jeremiah 2:5.
3Hebrews 12:8.
4 Jeremiah 18.
5 1 Peter 2:5.
6 Jeremiah 2:2.
7 Ezekiel 16:6–15.
8 James 4:4, 5. Authorised Version mistranslates.
9 Ephesians 5:27.
10Prometheus Vinctus, 887–900.
11 Jeremiah 31:20.
12 Hosea 11:8.
13 Matthew 23:37.
14 Revelation 4:11.
15Met., XII, 7.
16 1 John 4:10.
1 I mention the Incarnate God among human teachers to emphasise the fact that the principal difference between Him and them lies not in ethical teaching (which is here my concern) but in Person and Office.
2 James 1:13.
3Serious Call, cap 2.
1 N. P. Williams, The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin, p. 516.
2De Civitate Dei, XIV, xiii.
3 i.e., an account of what may have been the historical fact. Not to be confused with ‘myth’ in Dr Niebuhr’s sense (i.e., a symbolical representation of non-historical truth).
4 This is a development of Hooker’s conception of Law. To disobey your proper law (i.e., the law God makes for a being such as you) means to find yourself obeying one of God’s lower laws: e.g., if, when walking on a slippery pavement, you neglect the law of Prudence, you suddenly find yourself obeying the law of gravitation.
5 Theologians will note that I am not here intending to make any contribution to the Pelagian-Augustinian controversy. I mean only that such return to God was not, even now, an impossibility. Where the initiative lies in any instance of such return is a question on which I am saying nothing.
6 I Corinthians 15:22.
7 Sir James Jeans’ The Mysterious Universe, cap. 5.
8 Genesis 46:4.
1 Or perhaps it would be safer to say ‘of creatures’. I by no means reject the view that the ‘efficient cause’ of disease, or some disease, may be a created being other than man (see Chapter 9). In Scripture Satan is specially associated with disease in Job, in Luke 13:16, 1 Corinthians 5:5, and (probably) in 1 Timothy 1:20. It is, at the present stage of the argument, indifferent whether all the created wills to which God allows a power of tormenting other creatures are human or not.
2 The modern tendency to mean by ‘sadistic cruelty’ simply ‘great cruelty’, or cruelty specially condemned by the writer, is not useful.
3Leviathan, Pt. I, cap. 6.
4 Hooker, Laws of Eccl. Polity, I, i, 5.
5De Civitate Dei, XVI, xxxii.
6 Hebrews 9:22.
7 Plato. Phaed., 81, A (cf. 64, A).
8 Keats. Hyperion, III, 130.
9 Mark 10:27.
10 Hebrews 2:10.
11 On the two-edged nature of pain, see Appendix.
1 Cf. Brother Lawrence, Practice of the Presence of God, ivth conversation, 25 November 1667. The ‘one hearty renunciation’ there is ‘of everything which we are sensible does not lead us to God’.
1Summa Theol, I, IIae, Q. xxxix, Art. 1.
2 John 3:19; 12:48.
3 See von Hügel, Essays and Addresses, 1st series, What do we mean by Heaven and Hell?
4 The conception of a ‘second chance’ must not be confused either with that of Purgatory (for souls already saved) or of Limbo (for souls already lost).
5 Matthew 25:34, 41.
6Symbolism and Belief, 101.
1 Luke 13:16.
2 But also with J. Wesley, Sermon LXV. The Great Deliverance.
3 That is, it’s participation in the heavenly life of men in Christ to God; to suggest a ‘heavenly life’ for the beast as such is probably nonsense.
1 Romans 8:18.
3 George MacDonald, Alec Forbes, cap. XXXIII.
4Theologia Germanica, li.
5 Revelation 2:17.
6Politics, ii, 2, 4.
7 I Corinthians 12:12–30.
8 George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: 3rd Series, pp. 11, 12.
9 John 17:1,4, 5.
10Theol. Germ., xxxii.
2 I am not, of course, suggesting that these immortal longings which we have from the Creator because we are men, should be confused with the gifts of the Holy Spirit to those who are in Christ. We must not fancy we are holy because we are human.
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