I began Lewis in juiior high with his light apologetics and Miracles. (I saw the same problem that Anscombe saw, but cut him some slack for it.) Not impressed by LWW then, thought he had run out of ideas and was borrowing from post-Christianity or something.
Loved The Discarded Image*, Eddison, Charles Williams. Of course I knew elves and such from Andrew Lang. So Middleearth was sort of old news, too long and heavy for me.
* Btw, re Galileo and Copernicus etc, "The Great Ptolemic Smackdown" (in LJ posts) gives a lot more detail Lewis would have loved. Says the Church was going by measured data and the 'Rennaisance' heliocentrists by "woo" -- the Sun was center because that is the noblest position and Fire is the noblest element. A recent biography of Lewis goes more into that, says Lewis came to Cambridge as a crusader for the Middle Ages, which name he says was invented by the Rennaisance people he was debunking.
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Date: 2013-12-18 09:04 pm (UTC)Loved The Discarded Image*, Eddison, Charles Williams. Of course I knew elves and such from Andrew Lang. So Middleearth was sort of old news, too long and heavy for me.
* Btw, re Galileo and Copernicus etc, "The Great Ptolemic Smackdown" (in LJ posts) gives a lot more detail Lewis would have loved. Says the Church was going by measured data and the 'Rennaisance' heliocentrists by "woo" -- the Sun was center because that is the noblest position and Fire is the noblest element. A recent biography of Lewis goes more into that, says Lewis came to Cambridge as a crusader for the Middle Ages, which name he says was invented by the Rennaisance people he was debunking.