Sunday, April 18, 2004

C.S. Lewis' Allegorical Journey

I finished reading C.S. Lewis’ The Pilgrim’s Regress this weekend, and though I did not find the book enthralling, it was an entertaining allegory.  The book seems to follow Lewis’ own meanderings from unbeliever to believer, and, as in many other Lewis writings, exhibits Lewis’ complete embracing of Christian faith.

Paging through the book, I find I only took my pen to it two places.  In one of those instances, I penned a remark that a statement made in Lewis’ book reminded me of remarks made by Plato in regards to what we know, or remember, that I had highlighted from the book Great Dialogues of Plato.

The other notation made was an underlining of the following where Lewis criticizes the inductive method when applied to science.

"Hypothesis, my dear young friend, establishes itself by a cumulative process: or, to use popular language, if you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact."

C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress, pg. 22

A statement which, by substituting “Religious Truth” for “Scientific Fact,” can be applied to Christianity.

I did enjoy Michael Hague’s illustrations within Lewis’ book.  On to Nietzsche.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/18 at 07:52 AM
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