Class 1 Slides and Answers to Some of Your Questions
As promised the PowerPoint Slides can be viewed by clicking on the link below.
Since we didn't make it through Letters 3 & 4, I will add them to this week's adventure and we will explore all the ways Wormwood can tempt his patient in Letters 3 - 9.
I am working on a Glossary of some of the more odd words and terms Lewis uses in these first letters and will post it soon.
There were several good questions that have been excellent food for thought.
1. How did J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis meet?
At an English faculty meeting at Oxford University. They were later founding members of The Inklings, a group of Oxford tutors and professors who met regularly to read and critique each other's books. Tolkien and Lewis were friends for over 40 years. Lewis dedicated The Screwtape Letters to Tolkien and unsuccessfully nominated Tolkien for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.
Tolkien was almost 7 years older than Lewis. He died on September 2, 1973 at age 81.
2. What did Tolkien's initials J. R. R. stand for?
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. His friends and family called him Ronald.
3. Why do Anglicans have a Book of Common Prayer?
The first Anglican Book of Common Prayer was composed in 1549 when King Edward VI, only son of Henry VIII, wanted the common worship of the Church of England in a form that could read and understood in English. The BCP spells out our doctrine, discipline, and worship. You will find the same liturgy in any Episcopal Church and always in the common language of the people. I have attended services in several countries which were led in other languages which I did not understand, but I could follow the liturgy since it was the same service we use in the United States.
If you asked a question, which I did not answer, it is because I keep forgetting what I cannot remember. Please remind me.
Thanks and see you this Tuesday!
David
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