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Introduction to St. Athanasius’ “On the Incarnation” by C.S. Lewis

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There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found as a tutor in English Literature that if the average student wants to find out something about Platonism, the very …

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Chapter 19 – On Interpreting the mind of the sacred writer, Christians should not talk nonsense to unbelievers.

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Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of the world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, …

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