Show Notes
Welcome
- Lewis wrote the introduction to On The Incarnation by St. Athanasius, which was translated by Sister Penelope. The introduction is called “On the Reading of Old Books”:
01. “D. P. Curtin”
02. “The Scriptorium Project”
03. “The Early Church Fathers”
04. “The Sources”
05. “Funding”
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06. “The Roadmap”
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07. “Why this hasn’t already been done?”
“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century – the blindness about which posterity will ask, “But how could they have thought that?” – lies where we have never suspected it… None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.”
– C. S. Lewis, On The Reading of Old Books
08. “St. Thomas goes to India”
09. “The Celtic Church”
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10. “The Medievals”
- The Medieval German Church
- Gaius Valerius Catullus
- “The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis” by Dr. Jason Baxter
- Boethius
11. “A whole lotta polyglot”
- Legentibus
- The Aeneid
- In Letters To An American Lady (Oct 9th, 1954), Lewis sends a French copy of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe to aid with learning French.
- The Vulgate
12. “Fides quaerens intellectum”
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More Information
- The Scriptorium Project
- Recommended first steps
- On the Happy Life by St. Augustine
- The Life of St. Mary of Egypt by St Sophronius of Jerusalem
