Saturday, February 12, 2005

A Year with C. S. Lewis

I just had an inquiry about C. S. Lewis resulting from my website. The inquirer was reading excerpts from "A Year with C. S. Lewis." A passage from the "Screwtape Letters" must have been his reading for the day. The inquirer asked, "Who is the Enemy in the Screwtape Letters?"I am sure the inquirer was an intelligent person, but doesn't this point out the weaknesses of these stupid excerpt books? There is an old bible study adage, "A text without a context is a pretext." It holds true for Lewis as well. The point of many passages is totally lost without the context. I haven't read this book, but from this email alone, I would definitely recommend not buying.

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