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The Demarcation of Science and Religion

What is science? What is religion? How do the two intersect? Historians of science address these questions by analyzing how the scientific and religious beliefs of particular scientists or cultures have interacted at specific times. Philosophers of science and religion, however, have sought to characterize the relationship between them in more general terms. Their endeavor has required defining science and religion in order to distinguish or "demarcate" them from each other by clear and objective criteria. During modern times, theologians and philosophers of science have attempted to make categorical demarcations between science and religion on various definitional grounds. Read More ›

BSV Standalone Files

BIOSCIENCE VIEWS Download these files to your computer. 1) Mouse over the link and right click 2) Select “save target as” 3) Choose a location to save the file to your computer All files below are in the .wav audio file format. BSV1 – Dignity – RAW https://www.discovery.org/f/1206 BSV2 – Infanticide – RAW https://www.discovery.org/f/1207 BSV3 – Scientism – RAW https://www.discovery.org/f/1208

What Did C. S. Lewis Say about Botticelli? And Who Said So?

This is the sidebar that supplements “Spring in Purgatory: Dante, Botticelli, C. S. Lewis, and a Lost Masterpiece” The Allegory of Love: a Study in Medieval Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936), p. 83. “No religion, so long as it is believed, can have that kind of beauty [the beauty of pagan gods, ‘pure aesthetic contemplation of their eternity, their remoteness, Read More ›

An Open Letter to Patricia Batstone

5 Foxglove Close. Dunkeswell, Honiton, Devon EX14 4QE. 1987 doctoral thesis at Exeter College: “Shadow into Substance: Education and Identity in the Fantasy of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien” IN DEBT TO C. S. LEWIS: a collection of 200 accounts of how C. S. Lewis has influenced readers (1999). Saturday, February 5, 2000 Dear Patricia Batstone, A Read More ›

Narnia Performance

The Brookstone theatre company debuted ten years ago in Toronto. Brookstone is associated with Lamb’s Players of San Diego and connected with Toronto’s Walmer Road Church. It has launched seven original works like “Tent Meeting,” six Toronto premiers, and original versions of works like “Miracle Worker” and “Godspell.” “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” was performed from 10 December Read More ›

The Lewis Legacy-Issue 83, Winter 2000 News and Views

London’s Curtis Brown Literary Agency no longer represents C S Lewis Pte Ltd. Instead, an agency called the C S Lewis Company Ltd has been set up with two people to handle these lucrative matters. It has reportedly had two addresses so far: one in Lymingtin and one in Bristol. Rachel Churchill has been dealing with requests there. In his Read More ›

The Lewis Legacy-Issue 83, Winter 2000 Stop and Shop

BOOKS BY LEGACY READERS “Bloody Farce”: Irony, Farce and Morality in Dorothy L. Sayers’ Have His Carcase by Nancy-Lou Patterson (Ontario, Canada, 1999: 38 pages, 150 copies). Patterson begins by stating frankly that Have His Carcase is the least appreciated novel by Sayers. She quotes various critics: “the weakest of the Wimsey stories,” “intricacy of plot development that becomes oppressive,” Read More ›

The Lewis Legacy-Issue 83, Winter 2000 Notes and Quotes

“[Lewis’s] real power was not of proof; it was depiction.” Austin Farrer, friend of C. S. Lewis “First be absolutely sure that you have identified the truth (and the Scriptures are the place to go to check) and then hold fast to it and insist on it, gently and with kindness.” Douglas Gresham, stepson of C. S. Lewis “A peculiar Read More ›

C. S. Lewis: Not on “Their Side”

“A Conversation with Thomas Howard”by Frank Schaeffer, Editor of The Christian Activist“A Journal of Orthodox Opinion” Frank Schaeffer was a highly visible Protestant Evangelical until his midlife conversion to Orthodoxy. Thomas Howard was a highly visible Protestant Evangelical until his midlife conversion to Roman Catholicism. Frank Schaeffer: I first met Tom in the early 1960s at L’Abri Fellowship, the Protestant Read More ›

C. S. Lewis: Not on Our Side Exposed as a Heretic and Occultist

Rick Miesel was a 42-year-old convert to Christianity in 1985, and he retired from the business world in 1986. In 1989 he started a series of exposes of various religious teachers and organizations, and he eventually named it the “Christian Discernment Ministries” http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/lewis/general.htm. There Miesel provides 275 reports on 180 individuals and topics — including a 4,545-word expose of C. Read More ›