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During 1870-74 the family lived in Rome where Thomas Hamilton was Chaplain of Holy Trinity Church. There survives from this period the earliest document in Flora's hand. It is an account of a miracle she witnessed in one of the Catholic churches of Rome when she was 12 years old, and which WHL thought evidence of an eminent degree of her 'matter of factness.' Describing the body of a young female saint in a glass case beneath the altar, Flora said, 'the beautiful waxen figure with its flowers and candles had a great fastenation [sic] for me, so I went back by myself to look at it again...I was gazing fixedly at her when she slowly lifted her eyelids and looked at me; I was terribly frightened and felt myself getting cold - I had hardly time to look at or admire her large blue eyes when she again closed them.' Later, her mother 'laughed and said it was nonsense,' thus causing Flora to conclude that 'it was all done by cords' (LP I: 312).
The maternal grandfather of Jack Lewis was the Rev. Thomas Hamilton an Anglican chaplain in Rome (for a few years) and Jack's mother spent some of her childhood in Italy.
Riding in the upper story of the family omnibus of C. S. Lewis’s chromosomes was a paternal great grandfather, Joseph, a Methodist minister,
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C. S. Adventurer Biography
C. S. Lewis: Minibiography and Author’s Bibliography
by Dr. Bruce Edwards
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The Genius of C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity
Given his prodigious output, it’s very hard to succinctly communicate the full genius of C.S. Lewis. Therefore, to give a broader sampling of his wisdom, in this series I’m going to be selecting four of my favourite books by Lewis and then examining some of the ideas to be found between their covers. The books we’ll be looking at will be Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and we’ll then close with The Four Loves.
After The Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis’ most well-known book is his seminal work on apologetics, Mere Christianity. The chapters of this book originally began life as radio broadcasts during World War Two. Over the course of the book, Lewis defends the Christian worldview. Matt and I go through this book chapter-by-chapter in Season 1 of our podcast, Pints With Jack, although back then the podcast was named after Lewis’ pub, The Eagle and Child.
1. A common Christianity
You don’t have to go far into this book to uncover treasure. For example, readers shouldn’t skip over the Preface of the book because in it Lewis explains what he is attempting to do, which is to defend what he calls “Mere Christianity”. Jack explains that he’s going to ignore denomination disputes and inst