C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church by Joseph Pearce

Author:Joseph Pearce [Pearce, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781618902313
Publisher: St. Benedict Press LLC
Published: 2013-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

The whole of the ninth chapter is based on one of the great theological issues. In the fourth century St. Augustine gave classical formulation to the Church’s belief that Adam’s Fall brought more good than evil. His expression, Felix peccatum Adae, is rendered “O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam” in the Easter liturgy of the Catholic Church. The Un-man tries to convince the Lady that only by disobeying Maleldil will she emerge from her present “smallness” into “Deep Life, with all its joy and splendour and hardness.” Finally, Ransom turns on the Un-man and, addressing him as the Devil, says: “Tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man?” The remembrance of what the Incarnation still means to him causes the Un-man to howl like a dog, and he abandons the temptation.27

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