God in the Dock by C. S. Lewis

Author:C. S. Lewis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Spirituality, Religion, Classics, Non-Fiction, Writing
ISBN: 9780802871831
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 1970-12-31T20:00:00+00:00

1 In his book The Problem of Pain one of the questions Lewis addressed himself to was: how to account for the occurrence of pain in a universe which is the creation of an all-good God, and in creatures who are not morally sinful. His chapter on ‘Animal Pain’ provoked a counter-inquiry from the late C. E. M. Joad, who was Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of London. The result was this controversy.

2 The Problem of Pain (London, 1940), ch. ix, p. 120.

3 Ibid., pp. 120–21.

4 Ibid., p. 121.

5 Ibid., p. 127.

6 Ibid., p. 128.

7 Ibid., pp. 122–23.

8 G. K. Chesterton, ‘A Hymn’, line 11. The first line begins ‘O God of earth and altar’.

9 ‘for the sake of argument’.

10 The Problem of Pain, p. 128.

11 Lady Julian of Norwich, Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, ch. xxvii.

12 Luke xiii. 16.

13 St Augustine, Confessions, bk. X, ch. 27. ‘Beauty so ancient and so new’.

14 ‘Despair’, xix, 106.

15 II Corinthians iv. 4.

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